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by kaonashi 2410 days ago
https://www.lrb.co.uk/v14/n19/wynne-godley/maastricht-and-al...

>If a country or region has no power to devalue, and if it is not the beneficiary of a system of fiscal equalisation, then there is nothing to stop it suffering a process of cumulative and terminal decline leading, in the end, to emigration as the only alternative to poverty or starvation.