Making the European monetary union [electronic resource] : the role of the Committee of Central Bank Governors and the origins of the European Central Bank / by Harold James ; with a foreward by Mario Draghi and Jaime Caruana.
Publication details: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2012.Description: xiv, 567 p. : illISBN:- 9780674066830 (alk. paper)
- 9780674068087 (e-book)
- 332.4/94 23
- HG3894 .J36 2012eb
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
List of figures -- Foreword / by Mario Draghi -- A Napoleonic prelude -- The origins of the committee -- The response to global monetary turbulence : Barre and Werner -- The snake and other animals -- Negotiating the European monetary system -- The malaise of the 1980s -- The Delors committee and the relaunching of the central bank governors -- Designing a central bank -- The EMS crises -- Conclusion: the euro and the legacy of the Committee of Governors -- Appendix A: The governors' drafts and the treaty text of the statutes of the ECB and EMI -- Appendix B: Members of the committee of governors -- Appendix C: Dramatis personae -- Appendix D: Chronology -- Appendix E: Figures -- Abbreviations used in the text -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.