EU: neither rules nor standards, but autonomy and accountability. In response to Blanchard et al.

Economists Olivier Blanchard, Alvaro Leandro and Jeromin Zettelmeyer (BLZ) raised the bar of the debate on the EU rules on fiscal policy by asking for a significant Treaty change. It was ample time. Their paper has the pleasant feature that close to none others have when debating about the issue: simplicity, pragmatism and thinking «big». And when you have these three…

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