The Single European Currency in National Perspective A Community in Crisis?

by Moss, Bernard H.; Michie, Jonathan

• ISBN13: 9780312230319
• ISBN10: 0312230311
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-03-16
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This is the first book to look at the European Union and single currency from the perspective of member-states. It offers a systematic critique of the project from the viewpoint of labor and employment. Written by political economists, a historian and lawyer, an economic journalist and a trade-union leader for both an academic and general audience, it is interdisciplinary and synthetic in approach. In seeking to explain the crisis that has best Europe as a result of European and monetary union, it is likely to become the standard alternative text to the conventional wisdom on European integration.

Author Biography

Bernard H. Moss is Professor of History at the Institute of European Studies in London.

Jonathan Michie is Professor of Management and Business Studies, Birkbeck College at the University of London.

Table of Contents

The Single European Currency in National Perspective: A Community in Crisis?--Bernard H. Moss * Part I: National Perspectives * Economic Consequences of EMU for Britain--Jonathan Michie * France: Economic and Monetary Union and the Social Divide--Bernard H. Moss * Hoist with its own Petard: Consequences of the Single Currency for Germany--Jörg Huffschmid * Italy towards European Monetary Union (and Domestic Disunion)--Annamaria Simonazzi and Fernando Vianello * State Intervention and the Question of European Integration in Spain--Miguel Martinez Lucio * Europe in Crisis? * Is the European Community Politically Neutral? The Free Market Agenda--Gernard H. Moss * The Economic Limits of European Integration--John Corcoran * EMU and the Democratic Deficit--Bill Morris * Why "Employability" won't Make EMU Work--Andy Robinson

The Single European Currency in National Perspective: A Community in Crisis?--Bernard H. Moss * Part I: National Perspectives * Economic Consequences of EMU for Britain--Jonathan Michie * France: Economic and Monetary Union and the Social Divide--Bernard H. Moss * Hoist with its own Petard: Consequences of the Single Currency for Germany--Jörg Huffschmid * Italy towards European Monetary Union (and Domestic Disunion)--Annamaria Simonazzi and Fernando Vianello * State Intervention and the Question of European Integration in Spain--Miguel Martinez Lucio * Europe in Crisis? * Is the European Community Politically Neutral? The Free Market Agenda--Gernard H. Moss * The Economic Limits of European Integration--John Corcoran * EMU and the Democratic Deficit--Bill Morris * Why "Employability" won't Make EMU Work--Andy Robinson