alt Hacker News> Where redistribution runs vertically and broadly, the welfare state absorbs global finance shocks...
If this was true, then the Eurozone crisis would not have been as severe as it was in Portugal, Spain, Italy, Greece, and France - all countries with broad and large social assistance programs.
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Also, the HN title is editorialized, the correct title is "Who the welfare state protects shapes a country’s financial openness"
The crisis was largely artificially engineered because Germans believed that Southern Europeans were "lazy" and needed to be made an example of.
The ECB could have brought government bond yields down from the beginning and most of the problems could have been avoided.