"This book presents a new narrative on the Eurozone crisis. It argues that the common currency has the potential to kill the European Union, and the conventional wisdom that the Eurozone can be fixed by a common budget and further political integration is incorrect. The authors address key...

Acknowledgements -- The problem -- Where it all started -- The Swedish roots of the American welfare state -- Exporting egalitarianism to America -- Problem 1: Fiscal eugenics -- Problem 2: Slow growth -- Problem 3: Government debt -- Conclusion -- Reference list -- Index

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- List of exhibits -- List of boxes -- Introductory remarks -- 1 The theory of money: basic concepts, part I -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.1.1 On the nature, creation, and distribution of money -- 1.1.2 On money and prices -- 1.1.3 On...

Acknowledgements -- The problem -- Where it all started -- The Swedish roots of the American welfare state -- Exporting egalitarianism to America -- Problem 1: Fiscal eugenics -- Problem 2: Slow growth -- Problem 3: Government debt -- Conclusion -- Reference list -- Index.

Cracks in the American dream -- A primer on household wealth -- Pathways to wealth accumulation -- Recognizing our past -- Evidence of wealth privilege -- Three views of the American dream -- Resilience and wealth privilege -- The spiral of privilege and policy -- The white plutocracy system

1. Introduction -- 2. Online education : the good, the bad and the ugly -- 3. MOOCs -- 4. Free/libre/open-source edtech -- 5. Unbundling -- 6. Electronic Taylorism -- 7. Social media in the classroom and out -- 8. The zero-marginal-cost education -- 9. Conclusion : higher education in a digital age