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Money and politics : European monetary unification and the international gold standard (1865-1873)

"Money and Politics reconstructs for the first time the full history of the creation of the Latin Monetary Union (LMU), a long forgotten precedent of the Euro. It focuses in particular on the attempted transformation of the LMU into a European Monetary Union between 1865 and 1873. The use of extensive diplomatic and banking archives in France, Britain, Italy, and Germany has enabled the author to reconstruct in detail the intellectual debate concerning the gold standard and bimetallism, as well as the surrounding political and diplomatic manoeuvres, which in many ways anticipated the conflicts of today's monetary unification." "This book is written in an accessible and multi-disciplinary fashion, and will appeal to economists, historians, and political scientists with an interest in the formation and readjustment of government policies. It also paints a fascinating picture for policymakers and all those concerned with current debates surrounding EMU and the British position."--Jacket
Print Book, English, 2001
Oxford University Press, New York, 2001
History
x, 241 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780199243662, 0199243662
45556225
1. The Political and Monetary Situation in Europe in 1865
2. The Formation of the Latin Monetary Union and the International Monetary Conference of 1867
3. Economics of Monetary Unification
4. Managing a Difficult Union: France and the LMU
5. Enthusiasm and Resistance to Union in Britain and Germany
App. The Effect of Monetary Unification and the Metallic Standards on Exchange Rate Fluctuation