ADAM TOOZE

A roundup of recommended reading on Italy’s political economy.

How Italy’s pro-European elite are raising the stakes.

Notes on the historical backdrop to the current Italian-European situation. A crisis made in Italy or Europe?

Comparing three different lines of reading Varoufakis’s gripping memoir.

Revisiting two revealing interviews from December 2011 and February 2012 throws light on the economics and politics of the eurozone crisis.

How Athens threatened to blow up Draghi’s QE, but didn’t dare.

Wolfgang Schäuble, Germany’s Finance Minister is widely seen, as one of the “most consequential European politician of his generation”. Joshua Rahtz’s recent NLR piece is

What lies behind the asymmetry in the left and right-wing challenges to the current order? Political economy and political sociology.

How the fall of the Berlin Wall, globalization, judicial activism and the politics of social policy transformed the family policy regime of Germany from the 1990s onwards.

In a dramatic development German Finance Minister turns Trumpite criticism of German trade surplus against Draghi and ECB. He thus opens a major line of fissure that could be decisive for the future of the Eurozone.