Ashoka Mody is Charles and Marie Robertson Visiting Professor in International Economic Policy at the Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University. He is author of EuroTragedy: A Drama in Nine Acts. Previously, Professor Mody was Deputy Director in the International Monetary Fund’s Research and European Departments. He has worked at the World Bank, AT&T’s Bell Laboratories, and the Centre for Development Studies, Trivandrum. He has been a Visiting Professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School and is a non-resident fellow at the Center for Financial Studies, Frankfurt. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from Boston University.
Ashoka Mody
Charles and Marie Robertson Visiting Professor in International Economic Policy
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@AndrewWattEU @MESandbu In PISA, the US far outstrips DEU, FRA, ITA, ESP. On universities, R&D, patenting, tech hubs, the eurozone is not even in the same league as the US & rapidly falling behind CN. And pro-Europeans want to use the euro to compete with the US and CN! Who exactly is indiscriminate?
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And they want to compete with first-mover and network externalities that the U.S. enjoys and China's economic strength by promoting the euro's international role? First raise the PISA scores. No "nation" becomes a leader without educating its children. t.co/r2ybxM5xUh
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They preside over a continent declining in economic and political power, with deep political fragmentation within member nation-states, rife with conflicts among member states, and stuck with a vain single currency project that does not have--and will never have--fiscal backing.
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"EU leaders believe the euro needs to play a larger role in order to compete against the US and China" What illegal substance are euro leaders inhaling? t.co/WyV3VobxN7 via @financialtimes
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@stefanauer_hku Possibly. Every international initiative compromises some national interest group. This group has to be compensated, which is never done. So the case has to be made that the incentive to override national interests has changed.