The Currency of Ideas

by Kathleen R. McNamara

Book Overview

Why have the states of Europe agreed to create an Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) and a single European currency? What will decide the fate of this bold project? This book explains why monetary integration has deepened in Europe from the Bretton Woods era to the present day. McNamara argues that the development of a neoliberal economic policy consensus among European leaders in the years after the first oil crisis was crucial to stability in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801486025
• ISBN13: 9780801486029
• Release Date: December 1998
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher