Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 216
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Trim: 5¾ x 9
978-0-8476-9019-0 • Paperback • September 1998 • $61.00 • (£47.00)
Jeffry Frieden is professor of government at Harvard University. Daniel Gros is deputy director of the Centre for European Policy Studies in Brussels, Belgium. Erik Jones is lecturer in politics at the University of Nottingham, U.K.
Chapter 1 EMU: Economics and Politics
Chapter 2 Monetary Union and European Unemployment
Chapter 3 External Shocks and Labor Mobility: How Important Are They for EMU?
Chapter 4 Fiscal Deficit Reductions in Line with the Maastricht Criteria for Monetary Union: An Empirical Analysis
Chapter 5 Monetary Union with Variable Geometry
Chapter 6 The Political Economy of European Monetary Union: A Conceptual Overview
This is a serious book, and the lay reader will have to brace himself for outbursts of economists' algebra here and there. So the question of whether monetary union will indeed lead to political union, and, if so, in what form, will in due course receive its final answer. Mr. Frieden's and Mr. Jones's analysis help illuminate the likely outcome....
— The Economist, May 1999
This is a serious book, and the lay reader will have to brace himself for outbursts of economists' algebra here and there. So the question of whether monetary union will indeed lead to political union, and, if so, in what form, will in due course receive its final answer. Mr. Frieden's and Mr. Jones's analysis help illuminate the likely outcome.
— The Economist, May 1999