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The Price of the Euro

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  • © 2004

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Editors:
  1. Jonas Ljungberg

    1. Department of Economic History, Lund University, Sweden

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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.

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction

    • Jonas Ljungberg
    Pages 1-28

  3. Borders Matter: Why the Euro is a Mistake and Why it will Fail

    • Arjo Klamer
    Pages 29-43

  4. The Stability Pact: A Macroeconomic Straitjacket!

    • Jesper Jespersen
    Pages 45-57

  5. The Euro in its Fifth Year: Expectations Fulfilled?

    • Renate Ohr
    Pages 59-69

  6. The ECB and the Decline of European Democracy

    • James Forder
    Pages 71-85

  7. A Critical Analysis of EMU and of Sweden Joining It

    • Roland Vaubel
    Pages 87-95

  8. The UK and the Euro: Politics versus Economics in a Long-Run Perspective

    • James Foreman-Peck
    Pages 97-119

  9. The EMU in a European Perspective: Lessons from Monetary Regimes in the Twentieth Century

    • Jonas Ljungberg
    Pages 121-141

  10. National Policy in Disguise: A Historical Interpretation of the EMU

    • Hans Albin Larsson
    Pages 143-169

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 171-174
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Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Economic History, Lund University, Sweden

    Jonas Ljungberg

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JAMES FORDER Lecturer in Economics, Balliol College, Oxford University, UK JAMES FOREMAN-PECK Professor in Economics and Director of the Welsh Institute for Research in Economics and Development at Cardiff Business School, UK JESPER JESPERSON Professor in Economics at Roskilde University, Denmark ARJO KLAMER Professor in Cultural Economics at Erasmus University, Rotterdam, the Netherlands HANS ALBIN LARSSON Professor in History at the School of Education and Communication, Jönköping University, Sweden RENATE OHR Professor in Economics at the Georg-August University of Göttingen, Germany ROLAND VAUBEL Professor in Economics at the University of Mannheim, Germany

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