Philipp Bagus is professor of economics at Universidad Rey Juan Carlos. He is a Fellow of the Mises Institute, an IREF scholar, and was awarded the 2011 and 2017 O.P. Alford III Prize in Libertarian Scholarship, the Ron Paul Liberty in Media Award 2003, the Templeton Fellowship Award of the Independent Institute in 2008, and the Ludwig-Erhard-Forderpreis 2016. He is the author of The Tragedy of the Euro and coauthor of Deep Freeze: Iceland's Economic Collapse. The Tragedy of the Euro has so far been translated and published in Greek, German, French, Slovak, Polish, Italian, Romanian, Finnish, Spanish, Portuguese, British English, Dutch, Brazilian Portuguese, Bulgarian, and Chinese. He is also author of In Defense of Deflation, and co-author with Andreas Marquart of Blind Robbery: How the Fed, Banks and Government Steal Our Money and of the German language book Wir schaffen das alleine - warum Kleinstaaten einfach besser sind. Visit his website at PhilippBagus.com[5].