The negotiations for economic and monetary union in the European Union represented a massive change for Europe and for the world. This book identifies why the historical agreement at Maastricht in December 1991 was possible and how the agreement was made. It examines the motives that inspired EC political leaders, the strategies that they pursued, and the institutions of the EC which were used to achieve monetary union.

The Road To Maastricht: Negotiating Economic and Monetary Union

Business & Money

Dyson, Kenneth

Featherstone, Kevin

Economics

Oxford University Press

The negotiations for economic and monetary union in the European Union represented a massive change for Europe and for the world. This book identifies why the historical agreement at Maastricht in December 1991 was possible and how the agreement was made. It examines the motives that inspired EC political leaders, the strategies that they pursued, and the institutions of the EC which were used to achieve monetary union.

The Road to Maastricht: Negotiating Economic and Monetary Union

States, Debt, and Power argues for the importance of situating our contextually influenced thinking about European states and debt within a commitment to historically informed and critical analysis. It teases out certain broad historical patterns. The book also examines the inescapably difficult and contentious judgements about 'bad' and 'good' debt; about what constitutes sustainable debt; and about distributive justice at times of sovereign debt crisis. These judgements offer insight into the nature of power and the contingent nature of sovereign creditworthiness. Three themes weave through the book: the significance of creditor-debtor state relations in defining asymmetry of power; the context-specific and constructed character of debt, above all in relation to war; and the limitations of formal economic reasoning in the face of radical uncertainty. Part I examines case studies from Ancient Greece to the modern Euro Area and brings together a wealth of historical data that cast fresh light on how sovereign debt problems are debated and addressed. Part II looks at the conditioning and constraining framework of law, culture, and ideology and their relationship to the use of policy instruments. Part III shows how the problems of matching the assumption of liability with the exercise of control are rooted in external trade and financial imbalances and external debt; in financial markets and vulnerability to banking crisis; in the character of the 'private governance of public debt'; in who has power over indicators of sustainability; in domestic institutional and political arrangements; and in sub-national fiscal governance. Part IV looks at how the problems of mismatch between liability and control take on an acute form within the historical context of European monetary union, above all in Euro Area debt crises.

States, Debt, and Power: 'Saints' and 'Sinners' in European History and Integration

This book uses extensive original archival and elite interview research to examine the attempt to rejuvenate liberalism as a means of disciplining democracy and the market through a new rule-based economic and political order. This rebirth took the form of conservative liberalism and, in itsmost developed form, Ordo-liberalism. It occurred against the historical background of the great transformational crisis of liberalism in the first part of the twentieth century. Conservative liberalism evolved as a cross-national phenomenon. It included such eminent and cultured liberal economistsas James Buchanan, Frank Knight, Henry Simons, Ralph Hawtrey, Jacques Rueff, Luigi Einaudi, Walter Eucken, Friedrich Hayek, Alfred Muller-Armack, Wilhelm Ropke, Alexander Rustow, and Paul van Zeeland, as well as leading lawyers like Louis Brandeis, Franz Bohm, and Maurice Hauriou. Conservativeliberals also played a formative role in establishing new international networks, notably the Mont Pelerin Society.The book investigates the rich intellectual inheritance of this variant of new liberalism from aristocratic liberalism, ethical philosophy, and religious thought. It also locates the social basis of conservative liberalism and Ordo-liberalism in the cultivated bourgeois intelligentsia. The book goeson to examine the attempts to embed this new disciplinary form of liberalism in Britain, France, Germany, Italy, and the United States, and to consider the determinants of its varying significance across space and over time. It concludes by assessing the historical significance and contemporaryrelevance of conservative liberalism and Ordo-liberalism as liberalism confronts a new transformational crisis at the beginning of the new millennium. Is their promise of disciplining democracy and the market a hollow one?

Conservative Liberalism, Ordo-liberalism, and the State: Disciplining Democracy and the Market

One of the boldest economic, monetary, and political projects in modern history, the Euro-Zone represents the single most important step in European Integration since 1957. In this first major study, Kenneth Dyson examines the major political questions raised by the birth of the Euro-Zone on January 1, 1999 and argues for a more politically informed analysis and assessment of its nature, operation, and prospects.

The Politics of the Euro-Zone: Stability or Breakdown?

International

One of the boldest economic, monetary, and political projects in modern history, the Euro-Zone represents the single most important step in European Integration since 1957. In this first major study, Kenneth Dyson examines the major political questions raised by the birth of the Euro-Zone on January 1, 1999 and argues for a more politically informed analysis and assessment of its nature, operation, and prospects. How does the Euro-Zone operate? What does it mean for European States and for the political strategies of governments? How is its operation to be explained? What are its prospects for stability? And what kinds of policies are needed to strengthen its capacity to withstand crisis? Here, Dyson examines these and other burning questions about the Euro-Zone, addressing the exhilarated problems of social justice, democratic consent, and identity.

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

The creation of the single European currency and of the European Central Bank in the context of a wider economic and political union has been one of the most important projects of institution-building and policy development in post-1945 Europe. The first volume of European Economic Governance and Policies seeks both to place this project in its longer-term historical context and to complement the many secondary texts on this highly topical subject. It brings together for the first time, and offers analytical commentary on, the classic documents relevant to the process of constructing and developing European economic governance based on Economic and Monetary Union (EMU). The book includes the 'classic' documents concerned with EMU and economic governance from before 1914 to the launch of European monetary union on 1 January 1999. This volume makes available a large collection of often neglected historical documents about the governance of the European economy, based around the creation of EMU. They are presented in a convenient and accessible form both for scholars and students and for market and policy practitioners concerned with the historical development of Europe's political economy. Those who are new to the subject should benefit from easy access to basic texts and related commentaries and references. Those who are more familiar with EMU will have a single key source of comprehensive and up-to-date references in terms of which past and current debates and policies have been framed. The primary sources that are made available here would otherwise be costly to access and use. In many cases documents have been rescued from obscurity. Their availability should help to inform and enrich public debate about the historical development of EMU and how the European economy is governed. In addition, the book offers extensive commentaries at the beginning of each section as well as on individual documents that seek to clarify changes in meanings and understandings over time and the background to these changes.

European Economic Governance and Policies: Volume I: Commentary on Key Historical and Institutional Documents

Quaglia, Lucia

Culture First!: Promoting Standards in the New Media Age (Media-Cultural Studies)

Challenges the fashionable positions in cultural and media studies that technological change has made traditional concepts of standards and quality in media obsolescent and that users can feel secure about standards because they actively participate in creating media culture. The eight essays argue that the proper study of culture is normative, and can best be pursued by reviving the distinction between our best self and our ordinary self, by articulating aesthetic and ethical standards, and by recognizing the specific cultural values of the printed word and reading. Distributed by Books International. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Homolka, Walter

Social Sciences

UNKNO

Why have continental European societies developed the idea of the abstract impersonal state as the fundamental institution of political rule? Why, on the other hand, has this idea played a relatively insignificant part in the history of English-speaking countries? It is to such questions that this major study is addressed. With clarity and conciseness, Kenneth Dyson examines the fascinating tapestry of thought about public authority that the state tradition represents, and identifies the major individual contributions to that tapestry. In addition to offering a clear conceptualisation of state, he deals with such key issues as the role of the intellectual, the social function of state theories, and the difficulties of accommodating state and democracy.

The State Tradition in Western Europe: A Study of an Idea and Institution (Ecpr Classics)

History

Europe

ECPR Press

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The Road To Maastricht: Negotiating Economic and Monetary Union

The Road to Maastricht: Negotiating Economic and Monetary Union

States, Debt, and Power: 'Saints' and 'Sinners' in European History and Integration

Conservative Liberalism, Ordo-liberalism, and the State: Disciplining Democracy and the Market

The Politics of the Euro-Zone: Stability or Breakdown?

The Politics of the Euro-Zone: Stability or Breakdown?

European Economic Governance and Policies: Volume I: Commentary on Key Historical and Institutional Documents

Culture First!: Promoting Standards in the New Media Age (Media-Cultural Studies)

The State Tradition in Western Europe: A Study of an Idea and Institution (Ecpr Classics)

Small and Medium Sized Enterprises