Der Altmeister hat sich geäußert, zur früher mal gut klingenden EU-Idee. Sein gelehrter, süffisanter Artikel als Teil seiner monatlichen Kolumne bei Econlib erhellt die ordnungspolitische Konstellation der aktuellen Tragödie.

Es gibt zwei Gesellschaftsformen - aus der Eingangspassage : „One is driven by agreements, contracts and custom resulting in exchanges between individuals exercising the freedom of choice that the circumstances of each permit. Their circumstances are partly a result of the past, partly of their own doing. The other kind of order is driven by command. Command in the form of laws and ad hoc regulations and orders determining what society or its various groups and categories must and must not do. It thus produces collective choices to which individuals are forced to conform by the principle of submission leading to political obedience. Political obedience is considered legitimate because the collective choice rule on which it rests, for example majority rule, is claimed to be of people's own choosing.“

Die kollektive Organisationsform ließe sich despektierlich als "Toys for the Boys." bezeichnen. Und diese Boys gestalten unser Leben. Warum? Darum: "The Boys are usually well-educated, intelligent and very ambitious men and women forming networks at or close to the centres of power. They are over-represented in political parties, the higher reaches of regulatory agencies and in the better sort of print and audio-visual media. Their fertile minds keep producing good ideas, blueprints of new structures that, if duly constructed, should make the world a better place. For the Boys, such Toys promise a double boon. One is the satisfaction of being the champion of a good thing, of progress. The other less easily avowed, is that as newly constructed institutions come with new job opportunities, exciting career prospects will beckon to the inventors and promoters of the new Toys."

Derweilen hat Nouriel Roubini das vorläufige Ausmaß der Staatsschuldenkrise beziffert: 2 Billionen Euro binnen 3 Monaten.

Das ist die alternativlose Alternative, wenn man nicht zu (nationalen) Wettbewerbswährungen zurückkehren möchte oder abwerten kann.