The IEA is hosting an event promoting Euro Crash by Brendan Brown. The book documents an “exit route from monetary failure in Europe”, but the talk is described as focusing on an alternative diagnosis of the current crises:

Brendan Brown shows how the inflation-targeting regime established by the ECB right at the start, coupled with the reckless dismantling of the old Bundesbank’s monetary framework, contributed decisively to the ensuing gross failures. Further factors in the fatal cocktail included long-term French monetary nationalism, empowered by a French President at the head of the ECB, and the succumbing of euro officials to the same deflation phobia which had gripped the Federal Reserve.

In exploring these themes, Brendan Brown draws on both traditional monetarist and Austrian School economic literature.

It’s happening next Wednesday 29th Feb and starts at 6.30pm at the IEA’s location on 2 Lord North Street, London.