Money And Power In Europe

Author : Matthias Kaelberer
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791449950
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Money and Power in Europe written by Matthias Kaelberer and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2001-06-07 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the history of European monetary negotiations from the 1960s to the 1990s.

Author : Peter Spufford
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521375900
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Money and Its Use in Medieval Europe written by Peter Spufford and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a full-scale study that explores every aspect of money in Europe and the Middle Ages.

Author : Matthias Kaelberer
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791490394
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Money and Power in Europe written by Matthias Kaelberer and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2001-06-07 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing the forty-year history of negotiations to construct exchange rate regimes in the European Union, Money and Power in Europe emphasizes the role of a state's bargaining power for the formation of rules. In contrast to the prevailing literature's emphasis on domestic factors like sectoral and partisan interests, policy ideas and domestic institutional structures, Matthias Kaelberer highlights the structural conflict of interest between weak and strong currency countries over the rules of monetary cooperation. Strong currency countries, in particular Germany, because they do not face a reserve constraint, are in a position to shape the rules of monetary regimes decidedly in their favor, including the refusal to compromise on rules of domestic macroeconomic adjustment.

Author : Emmanuel Mourlon-Druol
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 0801465494
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Europe Made of Money written by Emmanuel Mourlon-Druol and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2012-08-15 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Europe Made of Money is a new history of the making of the European Monetary System (EMS), based on extensive archive research. Emmanuel Mourlon-Druol highlights two long-term processes in the monetary and economic negotiations in the decade leading up to the founding of the EMS in 1979. The first is a transnational learning process involving a powerful, networked European monetary elite that shaped a habit of cooperation among technocrats. The second stresses the importance of the European Council, which held regular meetings between heads of government beginning in 1974, giving EEC legitimacy to monetary initiatives that had previously involved semisecret and bilateral negotiations. The interaction of these two features changed the EMS from a fairly trivial piece of administrative business to a tremendously important political agreement. The inception of the EMS was greeted as one of the landmark achievements of regional cooperation, a major leap forward in the creation of a unified Europe. Yet Mourlon-Druol’s account stresses that the EMS is much more than a success story of financial cooperation. The technical suggestions made by its architects reveal how state elites conceptualized the larger project of integration. And their monetary policy became a marker for the conception of European identity. The unveiling of the EMS, Mourlon-Druol concludes, represented the convergence of material interests and symbolic, identity-based concerns.

Author : Bernard Connolly
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571301754
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rotten Heart of Europe written by Bernard Connolly and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2013-01-15 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The Brussels Commission has just suspended its senior economist, Bernard Connolly, for writing a book savaging the prospects for a common currency. There are many who now believe he should be lauded as a prophet.' Observer, Editorial, 1 October 1995'Mr. Connolly's longstanding proposition that the foisting of a common currency upon so many disparate nations would end in ruin is getting a much wider hearing...' New York Times, 17 November 2011When first published in 1995, The Rotten Heart of Europe caused outrage and delight - here was a Brussels insider, a senior EU economist, daring to talk openly about the likely pitfalls of European monetary union. Bernard Connolly lost his job at the Commission, but his book was greeted as a profound and persuasive expose of the would-be 'monetary masters of the world.' His brave act of defiance became headline news - and his book a major international bestseller. In a substantial new introduction, Connolly returns to his prophetic account of the double-talk surrounding the efforts of politicians, bankers and bureaucrats to force Europe into a crippling monetary straitjacket. Hidden agendas are laid bare, skulduggery exposed and economic fallacies are skewered, producing a horrifying conclusion. No one who wants to understand the workings of the EU, past, present and future can afford to miss this enthralling and deeply disturbing book.

Author : Paul Herman Emden
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Money Powers of Europe in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries written by Paul Herman Emden and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Peter Spufford
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780500285947
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Power and Profit written by Peter Spufford and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Newly available in paperback, this is a wonderfully readable account of the role of merchants and money in the medieval world. Professor Spufford, who has made a lifelong study of the subject, brings together a vast amount of material from archives all over the world to build up this important economic history of the origins of capitalism essential reading for the scholar, but also engaging and entertaining to the layman.

Author : Philip T. Hoffman
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691175845
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Why Did Europe Conquer the World? written by Philip T. Hoffman and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2017-01-24 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The startling economic and political answers behind Europe's historical dominance Between 1492 and 1914, Europeans conquered 84 percent of the globe. But why did Europe establish global dominance, when for centuries the Chinese, Japanese, Ottomans, and South Asians were far more advanced? In Why Did Europe Conquer the World?, Philip Hoffman demonstrates that conventional explanations—such as geography, epidemic disease, and the Industrial Revolution—fail to provide answers. Arguing instead for the pivotal role of economic and political history, Hoffman shows that if certain variables had been different, Europe would have been eclipsed, and another power could have become master of the world. Hoffman sheds light on the two millennia of economic, political, and historical changes that set European states on a distinctive path of development, military rivalry, and war. This resulted in astonishingly rapid growth in Europe's military sector, and produced an insurmountable lead in gunpowder technology. The consequences determined which states established colonial empires or ran the slave trade, and even which economies were the first to industrialize. Debunking traditional arguments, Why Did Europe Conquer the World? reveals the startling reasons behind Europe's historic global supremacy.

Author : William M. Reddy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521315098
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Money and Liberty in Modern Europe written by William M. Reddy and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1987-01-30 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The concept of class, along with its correlates -m class interest, class conflict, class consciousness - ramain indispensable tools of historical explanation. Yet research over the last twenty-five years, especially on the histories of England, France, and Germany, has revealed an increasingly poor fit between these concepts and the reality they purport to explain. Some historians have reacted by rejecting class; others have proposed bold revisions in our understanding of it that enable it to encompass new research findings. This study does neither. Instead, building on interpretive method Professor Reddy proposes to replace class with an alternative concept that seeks to capture from a new angle the fundamental relations of exchange and authority that have shaped social life in modern Europe.

Author : Wim Blockmans
Publisher : Leiden University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of Power in Europe written by Wim Blockmans and published by Leiden University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wim Blockmans investigates the exercise of power in European society through detailed analysis of three broad fields: politics, economics, and culture. The more these three areas overlap, he argues, the more absolute is the power. Thus, the movement of populations, the relationship of religions to secular powers, the arts of cities, courts, and villages all fall under his scrutiny.