This book will take the reader on a journey through the economic thought of Europe, spanning from ancient Greece to the modern day. It explores the economic ideas of the 27 European Union countries, the United Kingdom and Norway, across history.

By presenting 500 important quotes, the book offers a better understanding of Europe's economic landscape and serves as a guide that invites readers to explore in more detail the quoted sources. It displays the common socio-economic threads that bind European nations over millennia, transcending artificial divisions imposed by history. From ancient Greece to the reunification post-Berlin Wall, the book enables readers to explore the continuous European economic evolution.

The book will appeal to students and scholars of economics, as well as a wider audience, interested in a better understanding of how quotes and economic ideas from the past shape a future with aspirations, such as for the freedom of enterprise, for a market economy based on competition, for the fight against corruption, for a fair distribution of wealth, and an economy at the service of mankind.

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Cristina Peicuti foresaw the 2008 crisis, which was the subject of her thesis, "The Subprime Mortgage Crisis and the Credit Channel" (Paris, Panthéon-Assas University, 2006-2009). A professor and the scientific director of a research chair at the École Supérieure de Commerce de Paris (ESCP BS), she is a senior economist at one of the world's thirty globally systemic banks (G-SIBs). Cristina is the author of several books: A Monetary and Economic History of France since 1944, Of Banks and Crises (2024), Decoding Economic Crises (2023) and Credit, Destabilisation and Crises (2010).