From the athenian tetradrachm to the Euro

studies in european monetary integration

With the introduction of the Euro much recent attention has been focused on the role of currencies and their national and international significance. Whilst much has been made of the Euro's achievements in harmonising Europe's financial dealings, it is often forgotten that it ...

Central banking governance in the European Union

a comparative analysis

This book fills a gap in academic literature on the politics and public policy aspects of central banking in Europe, by conducting a theoretically-informed and empirically-grounded analysis of central banking governance before and after the establishment of the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU). The main ...

The money men

capitalism, democracy and the Hundred Years' War over the american dollar

From the first days of the United States, a battle raged over money. On one side were the democrats, who wanted cheap money and feared the concentration of financial interests in the hands of a few. On the other were the capitalists who sought the ...

El idioma de los precios

los pequeños misterios del dinero

Pocas cosas en nuestra vida cotidiana resultan más usuales que el dinero. Tanto es así que la palabra dinero nos sirve para referirnos a muy diversas realidades, desde las monedas y billetes que habitualmente llevamos con nosotros, hasta la riqueza de que disponemos, pasando por ...

Moneymakers

the secret world of banknote printing

This book is about the most precious piece of paper we know, about bank-notes. Modern life would be unthinkable without them. Yet, the general public is kept very much in the dark about how they are made or who makes them. It is rarely known ...

Challenges for Central Banks in an enlarged EMU

Monetary Union

the European Union as a neo-liberal construction

This volume presents a radical reinterpretation of the European Community or Union as a neo-liberal construction. It was neo- liberal rather than classically liberal because it was designed and used as an external instrument to weaken the interventionist welfare state that protected working people and ...

La integración monetaria en los países del Este y Centro de Europa

del COMECON a la UEM

Este trabajo recoge la gran transformación de las economías del Este y Centro de Europa desde un régimen de planificación centralizada hacia su funcionamiento como economías de mercado y su inclusión en la Unión Europea, tras cumplir los criterios de Copenhague o criterios de adhesión ...

La independencia del Banco Central Europeo

El Banco Central Europeo es uno de los bancos centrales del mundo con mayor autonomía; para muchos, el Banco Central Europeo constituye el modelo de banca central independiente. La normativa europea garantiza, a través de diferentes mecanismos, este máximo nivel de autonomía, dotando al banco ...

Monetary and fiscal policies in the Euro-Area

macro modelling, learning and empirics

The emergence of a new macro economy in Euro-Asia is a great challenge for academics and policy makers alike. Our book focuses on this macro economy and the monetary and fiscal policy responses. As the new environment has evolved over time, private behaviour as well ...

La lunga via per l'euro

The euro

a currency of 300 million people

Unión monetaria europea y disparidades regionales en España

Euros and europeans

monetary integration and the european model of society

Monetary strategies for joining the euro

In this book, well-known economists an policymakers look at the next step in the integration process for accesssion countries: accession to European Monetary Union

The Euro and its Central Bank

getting united after the nion

This history and analysis of the euro and the European Central Bank traces the process of European monetary integration from its beginnings as a utopian vision in the aftermath of World War II through the establishment of a single currency managed by a central bank ...

European monetary integration

The success of European monetary integration -- called by the editors of this CESifo volume "one of the most far-reaching, real world experiments in monetary policy to date" -- is not assured. Policy makers have been forced to deal with challenges posed by formulating a uniform monetary ...

The nature of money

Mainstream economics fails to grasp the specific nature of money. It is seen either as a #neutral veil# over the operation of the #real# economy or alternatively as a #thing# # a special commodity. In this important new book, Geoffrey Ingham draws on neglected traditions in ...

Policy competition and policy cooperation in a monetary union

This book studies the interactions between monetary and fiscal policies in the Euro area. The policy makers are the union central bank, the German government, the French government and other governments. The policy targets are price stability in the union, full employment in Germany, full ...

Institutional conflicts and complementarities

This important collection presents an authoritative selection of papers on "Institutional Conflicts and Complementarities" This publication is intent on building bridges between economics and the other social sciences. The focus is on the interaction between monetary policy and wage bargaining institutions in European Monetary Union ...