The creation of the single European currency and of the European Central Bank in the context of a wider economic and political union has been one of the most important projects of institution-building and policy development in post-1945 Europe. This book seeks both to place this project in its longer-term historical context and to complement the many secondary texts on this highly topical subject. It brings together for the first time, and offers analytical commentary on, the classic documents relevant to the process of constructing and developing European economic governance based on Economic and Monetary Union (EMU). The book includes the 'classic' documents concerned with EMU and economic governance from before 1914 to the launch of European monetary union on 1 January 1999.
The book makes available a large collection of often neglected historical documents about the governance of the European economy, based around the creation of EMU. They are presented in a convenient and accessible form both for scholars and students and for market and policy practitioners concerned with the historical development of Europe's political economy. Those who are new to the subject should benefit from easy access to basic texts and related commentaries and references. Those who are more familiar with EMU will have a single key source of comprehensive and up-to-date references in terms of which past and current debates and policies have been framed. The primary sources that are made available here would otherwise be costly to access and use. In many cases documents have been rescued from obscurity. Their availability should help to inform and enrich public debate about the historical development of EMU and how the European economy is governed. In addition, the book offers extensive commentaries at the beginning of each section as well as on individual documents that seek to clarify changes in meanings and understandings over time and the background to these changes.
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European Economic Governance and Policies brings together for the first time -- and offers analytical commentary on -- the classic documents relevant to the process of constructing and developing European economic governance based on Economic and Monetary Union.
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PART I: HISTORY ; PART II: INSTITUTIONS
the reader is not only provided with a detailed view of how the Euro was born (and who was responsible for its eventual birth defects) but also with a perspective of the different possible ways of understanding the role and place of monetary union in European integration, something to which the first historical subsection contributes brilliantly.
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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780199594511
Publisert
2010
Utgiver
Vendor
Oxford University Press
Vekt
1689 gr
Høyde
255 mm
Bredde
181 mm
Dybde
57 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
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Product format
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Antall sider
892