Description: With euro banknotes and coins starting to circulate as of January 2002, this timely book comes at a crucial juncture for the European Union. Exploring the origins of and progress toward the introduction of the euro, the contributors focus on the importance of economic and mone...
Brief description: Erik Jones is Director of the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute, Italy.
Review Quotes:
"An accomplished set of papers that span a range of theoretical perspectives and together provide a novel and useful commentary on one of the most intriguing developments in the international political economy-European monetary union." --Kathleen R. McNamara, Princeton University
"A worthy contribution to the understanding of European integration in general and EMU in particular." --German Politics "A broad and accessible introduction to the EMU maze that guides us through contending theories and evaluates their relevance. The authors give expert, often iconoclastic, critiques to inspire us on our journey. Policy experts and academic analysts alike will benefit from reading this volume, while students and the lay reader will find it readily opens up the maze to them as well." --Kevin Featherstone, University of Bradford