From the Athenian Tetradrachm to the Euro
Subtitle: Studies in European Monetary Integration
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Published: 2017
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 210
ISBN-13: 9781351157926
Subjects: Monetary unions; History; Monetary policy; Economic integration; Unions monétaires; Histoire; Politique monétaire; Intégration économique; International economic integration
Description: "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 is by no means the first pan-national currency to enter circulation. Indeed, as the various contributions to this volume make plain, the euro can in many ways be regarded as a step 'back to the future', that is, a further international currency in a long historical tradition that includes the Athenian tetradrachm, the Spanish peso and the French franc. Covering a timespan of some two and a half millennia, the contributions within this volume fall within four broad chronological sections, the first comprising three contributions that consider aspects of the European experience from classical antiquity until the high middle ages. The discussion then leaps forward chronologically to the modern age, given a focus by three contributions devoted to nineteenth-century European developments. These, in turn, are set within a wider spatial perspective by two essays that review, first, the classical gold standard, primarily in terms of peripheral economies' experience, and, second, the Bretton Woods system. Fourth, and lastly, the euro's origins and birth are explored in three further contributions. By taking such a long term view of supra-national currencies, this volume provides a unique perspective, not only to the introduction and development of the euro, and its predecessors, but also on the broader question of the relationship between trade and common currencies."--Provided by publisher.
Table of contents: title: Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Tables; List of Figures; Notes on Contributors; Preface From the Athenian Tetradrachm to the Euro; Introduction; 1 Common Currency from Antiquity: Plus Ãa change, plus c 'est la mÃ®me chose; 2 Monetary Integration in the Roman Empire; 3 'One Money for an Empire': Achievements and Limitations of Byzantium's Currency from Constantine the Great to the Fall of Constantinople; 4 On the History of German Monetary Union; 5 The Latin Monetary Union Revisited Once Again; 6 The Scandinavian Monetary Union 1873-1924.; title: 7 The Gold Standard: A View from the Periphery8 The Bretton Woods Agreements: A Monetary Theory Perspective; 9 The European Monetary System; 10 European Monetary Union: A Project of Promise and Risk; 11 From the Athenian Tetradrachm to the Euro: Some Concluding Remarks; Bibliography; Index.