Proportions

We agreed that The Decline of the Euro was a classic, and therefore the text should remain unchanged (and will remain unchanged, with the exception of removing a few typos you'd like to point out). However, precisely because it's a classic, its graphics deserve to be resized as follows:

like this:

That is, using the good old 1.618, which, if it was good enough for Phidias for the tympanum of the Parthenon, might be good enough for Bagnai for Greece's debt. Incidentally, this will leave more room for the little things I want to tell you in the afterword… and there are some!

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This is a machine translation of a post (in Italian) written by Alberto Bagnai and published on Goofynomics at the URL https://goofynomics.blogspot.com/2026/04/proporzioni.html on Thu, 30 Apr 2026 17:33:00 +0000. Some rights reserved under CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license.