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Autore |
Mayer Thomas <1954-> |
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Europe's unfinished currency [[electronic resource] ] : the political economics of the Euro / / Thomas Mayer |
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London ; ; New York, : Anthem Press, c2012 |
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0-85728-553-X |
0-85728-554-8 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (257 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Euro |
Money - European Union countries |
Eurozone |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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A question of war and peace -- No longer a question of war and peace -- A history of failures -- The euro's happy childhood and its abrupt end -- A crisis of legitimacy -- A (hidden) balance-of-payments crisis -- Forward or backward? -- In search of a lender of last resort -- The politics of euro rescue -- Why europe needs the euro -- A new foundation for emu -- Summary and conclusions. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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The euro was originally seen as another stepping stone to a politically unified Europe. Yet with the fall of the Berlin Wall, the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the unification of Germany, the need for European political union as a means to ensure peace in Europe disappeared. Due to the fading will for full political union, the euro project lost the prospect of a stable platform in the foreseeable future. As a result, the euro crisis forces policymakers to develop a new architecture for EMU. ?Europe's Unfinished Currency' proposes that this can only be done by way of a cu |
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