From the Athenian Tetradrachm to the Euro: Studies in European Monetary Integration

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Professor Gabriel Tortella, Professor Gérassimos Notaras, Professor Philip L Cottrell
Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2013/06/28 - 210 ページ

With the introduction of the euro much recent attention has been focused on the role of currencies and their national and international significance. Whilst much has been made of the euro's achievements in harmonising Europe's financial dealings, it is often forgotten that it is by no means the first pan-national currency to enter circulation. Indeed, as the various contributions to this volume make plain, the euro can in many ways be regarded as a step 'back to the future', that is, a further international currency in a long historical tradition that includes the Athenian tetradrachm, the Spanish peso and the French franc.

Covering a timespan of some two and a half millennia, the contributions within this volume fall within four broad chronological sections, the first comprising three contributions that consider aspects of the European experience from classical antiquity until the high middle ages. The discussion then leaps forward chronologically to the modern age, given a focus by three contributions devoted to nineteenth-century European developments. These, in turn, are set within a wider spatial perspective by two essays that review, first, the classical gold standard, primarily in terms of peripheral economies' experience, and, second, the Bretton Woods system. Fourth, and lastly, the euro's origins and birth are explored in three further contributions.

By taking such a long term view of supra-national currencies, this volume provides a unique perspective, not only to the introduction and development of the euro, and its predecessors, but also on the broader question of the relationship between trade and common currencies.

 

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1
Monetary Integration in the Roman Empire
7
A Project of Promise and Risk
10
Achievements and Limitations
24
On the History of German Monetary Union
42
The Latin Monetary Union Revisited Once Again
59
The Scandinavian Monetary Union 18731924
76
A View from the Periphery
96
A Monetary Theory Perspective
113
The European Monetary System
136
Bibliography
166
Index
181
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Professor Philip Cottrell is from the Department of Economic and Social History at the University of Leicester, UK. Gabriel Tortella is from Universidad de Alcalá, Spain. Professor Gérassimos Notaras is from the National Bank of Greece, Historical Archives, Greece.

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