Money and Politics
Subtitle: European Monetary Unification and the International Gold Standard (1865-1873)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: June 18, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780199243662
Subjects: Economic history; Monetary economics; Political science & theory; c 1800 to c 1900; Finance; Business/Economics; Business & Economics; Business / Economics / Finance; Latin Monetary Union; Europe; Gold standard; International - Economics; Money & Monetary Policy; Business & Economics / Finance; 19th century; Currency question; History; Monetary unions
Description: "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."--BOOK JACKET.