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Jesper Jespersen is Professor of Economics at Roskilde University, Denmark.  He holds a PhD in International Economics from the European University Institute, Florence, Italy. Further, he has been a visiting professor at the University of Burgundy, France, and a research fellow at Churchill College, Cambridge, UK. He is the author of Macroeconomic Methodology (2009), and co-editor of Keynes’s General Theory for Today (2012) and Teaching Post Keynesian Economics (2013).

• 1. Eurozone Crises.- 2. An 'Optimal' Currency Area: What Could it Mean?.- 3. Why was the EMU Established?: Different Perspectives.- 4. Balance of Payments Imbalances have Become the Achilles Heel of the EMU.- 5. Public Sector Deficit and Debt: Cause or Effect?.- 6. Macroeconomic Imbalances: Unemployment and Inequality.- 7. Distressed ECB and Financial Instability.- 8. Any Future for the Euro?.