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Informationen zum Autor JAMES FORDER Lecturer in Economics, Balliol College, Oxford University, UKJAMES FOREMAN-PECK Professor in Economics and Director of the Welsh Institute for Research in Economics and Development at Cardiff Business School, UKJESPER JESPERSON Professor in Economics at Roskilde University, DenmarkARJO KLAMER Professor in Cultural Economics at Erasmus University, Rotterdam, the NetherlandsHANS ALBIN LARSSON Professor in History at the School of Education and Communication, Jönköping University, SwedenRENATE OHR Professor in Economics at the Georg-August University of Göttingen, GermanyROLAND VAUBEL Professor in Economics at the University of Mannheim, Germany Klappentext This volume presents a critical examination of the EMU from different perspectives. It includes essays on the political economy of currency unions, on the Growth and Stability pact, the European Central Bank, an evaluation of the first four years of the EMU, and the costs and benefits for Sweden as well as for Britain of adopting the euro. Zusammenfassung This volume presents a critical examination of the EMU from different perspectives. It includes essays on the political economy of currency unions! on the Growth and Stability pact! the European Central Bank! an evaluation of the first four years of the EMU! and the costs and benefits for Sweden as well as for Britain of adopting the euro. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; J.Ljungberg Borders Matter; A.Klamer The Stability Pact - A Macroeconomic Strait Jacket; J.Jespersen The Euro in its Fifth Year - Expectations Fulfilled?; R.Ohr ECB and the Decline of European Democracy; J.Forder A Critical Analysis of EMU and of Sweden Joining It; R.Vaubel The UK and the Euro: Politics versus Economics in a Long-run Persepective; J.Foreman-Peck EMU in a European Perspective: Lessons of Monetary Regimes in the 20th Century; J.Ljungberg EMU as a Political Project - A Historical Interpretation; H. Albin Larsson...
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Introduction; J.Ljungberg Borders Matter; A.Klamer The Stability Pact - A Macroeconomic Strait Jacket; J.Jespersen The Euro in its Fifth Year - Expectations Fulfilled?; R.Ohr ECB and the Decline of European Democracy; J.Forder A Critical Analysis of EMU and of Sweden Joining It; R.Vaubel The UK and the Euro: Politics versus Economics in a Long-run Persepective; J.Foreman-Peck EMU in a European Perspective: Lessons of Monetary Regimes in the 20th Century; J.Ljungberg EMU as a Political Project - A Historical Interpretation; H. Albin Larsson
