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Category Archives: European History
Holocaust Memorial Day – Never Forget
On this day 70 years ago, Soviet troops liberated the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camps in present-day Poland. The scale of death and human destruction they found there was not lost to these men, even though they had been fighting on the most violent … Continue reading
Germany’s Credit Fuelled Growth – Facts and Incomplete Recommendations
Some time ago, I came across this European Voice article by Adair Turner, senior fellow at the Institute for New Economic Thinking and at the centre for financial studies in Frankfurt. He argues that German growth has been fuelled by foreign … Continue reading
Posted in Economic Concepts, European History, European Integration, Sovereign debt Crisis, Uncategorized, Visions of the Political Future of Europe
Tagged 1923, Adair Turner, Competitive Devaluation, current account, Debt Monetisation, ECB, Euro-Zone Crisis Management, Euro-Zone exit, George Soros, Germany, Germany's credit-fuelled growth, Hyper-inflation, Leverage, Moral Hazard, Optimum Currency Area, Ruhr, Savings, Seignoriage, Unit Labour Costs, Weimar Republic, Zimbabwe
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Oh! …and this started happening 25 years ago
The Fall of the Berlin Wall! Here’s a nice video with the images I remember, even though my family had not relocated to France at the time yet. Memory can play funny tricks on you. I think I remember it … Continue reading
Posted in European History, European Integration
Tagged anniversary, European history, Fall of Berlin Wall
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The Rise and Fall of the Roman Republic – Citizenship, Expansion, Income Inequality and Empire
This post is not supposed to offer a formal and authoritative or complete account, description or thesis of the rise and fall of the Roman Republic. Instead, it rather quickly and incompletely summarises what small and insignificant information I gathered … Continue reading
Posted in European History, History, Political Concepts
Tagged Ab urbe condita, Capture, Checks and Balances, Citizenry of Roman Republic, Civil Wars of the Roman Republic, Collective action problems, Conflict of the Orders, Emergence of Powers, Europe, First Triumvirate, Gaius Julius Caesar, Gaius Marius, Gracchi, Gracchi brothers, Hegemony, History, History of the West, Hoplites, Income inequality, Institutions, Jugurtha, Julius Caesar, Larry Lamb, Livy, Manipular Army, Manipules, Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, Marcus Crassus, Marian reforms, Mark Anthony, Ocatavian, Optimates, Patricians, Phalanx, Plebeians, Pompeus Maximus, Populares, Punic Wars, Roman Citizenship, Roman Empire, Roman Republic, Roman Republic Army, Roman Republic population, Roman Republic surface, Samnite Wars, Second Triumvirate, Sequencing of conquests, Size of Roman Republic, Size of Roman Republic Army, Size of Roman Republic population, Sulla, Surface of Roman Republic, System Collapse
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Coming up: A story about a little bit of History…
So… In case you are a regular reader of this blog and are disappointed at the scarcity of posts since May, or even since before that, I must apologise for the fact and excuse the inexistent posting by the fact … Continue reading
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