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OverviewWhy have the states of Europe agreed to create an Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) and a single European currency? What will decide the fate of this bold project? This text seeks to explain why monetary integration has deepened in Europe from the Bretton Woods era to the present. The author argues that the development of a neoliberal economic policy consensus among European leaders in the years after the first oil crisis was crucial to stability in the European Monetary System and progress towards EMU. She identifies two factors - rising capital mobility and changing ideas about the government's proper role in monetary policymaking - as critical to the neoliberal consensus, but warns that unresolved social tensions in this consensus may provoke a political backlash against EMU and its neoliberal reforms. McNamara intends her findings to have relevance not just to European monetary integration, but also to more general questions about the effects of international capital flows on states. Although the book delineates a range of constraints created by economic interdependence, McNamara rejects the notion that international market forces simply dictate government policy choice. She domonstrates that the process of neoliberal policy change is a historically dependent one, shaped by policymakers' shared beliefs and interpretations of their experiences in the global economy. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Kathleen R. McNamaraPublisher: Cornell University Press Imprint: Cornell University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.454kg ISBN: 9780801434327ISBN 10: 0801434327 Pages: 208 Publication Date: 18 December 1997 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Language: English Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. The Puzzle of Exchange Rate Cooperation 3. Capital Mobility and Ideas in European Monetary Cooperation 4. Capital Control, Keynesianism, and Bretton Woods 5. Capital Mobility, Policy Crisis, and the Snake 6. Neoliberal Policy Consensus and the European Monetary System 7. The Drive toward Economic and Monetary UnionIndexReviewsA significant contribution to our understanding of the relationship between ideas and political and economic decisions. -Governance: An International Journal of Policy and Administration An exhaustive case study. . . . McNamara's book provides a wealth of valuable detail on the path taken by European elites to develop a coordinated monetary policy and ultimately, a shared currency. -Society for Women in International Political Economy Newsletter The Currency of Ideas has much to offer those desiring to learn more about the forces driving monetary integration in Europe. -British Politics Group Newsletter McNamara's book brings much good political and economic sense to bear on a subject where it is often lacking. -Alan S. Milward, The Times Literary Supplement It is the prevailing wisdom that economic forces have driven Europe toward the adoption of its single currency, the euro, and that political forces have played a secondary role, if that. It is refreshing, therefore, to find a book that takes politics seriously in what is surely a political situation (as well as an economic one). McNamara considers not just politics but the ideas that condition political decisions and the environment in which those ideas are developed. An interesting book. . . . Well written with many useful references. -Choice Kathleen McNamara's book is a welcome addition to the small but growing collection of scholarship which straddles the political/economic divide in order to understand contemporary developments in the global political economy. . . . Together with another recent Cornell publication, Louis Pauly's Who Elected the Bankers, McNamara's work provides a good example of both the strengths and limitations which a perspective anchored firmly in the scholarly mainstream can offer to our knowledge of how the global political economy is organized. -Randall Germain, International Affairs A significant contribution to our understanding of the relationship between ideas and political and economic decisions. * Governance: An International Journal of Policy and Administration * An exhaustive case study.... McNamara's book provides a wealth of valuable detail on the path taken by European elites to develop a coordinated monetary policy and ultimately, a shared currency. * Society for Women in International Political Economy Newsletter * It is the prevailing wisdom that economic forces have driven Europe toward the adoption of its single currency, the euro, and that political forces have played a secondary role, if that. It is refreshing, therefore, to find a book that takes politics seriously in what is surely a political situation (as well as an economic one). McNamara considers not just politics but the ideas that condition political decisions and the environment in which those ideas are developed. An interesting book.... Well written with many useful references. * Choice * Kathleen McNamara's book is a welcome addition to the small but growing collection of scholarship which straddles the political/economic divide in order to understand contemporary developments in the global political economy.... Together with another recent Cornell publication, Louis Pauly's Who Elected the Bankers, McNamara's work provides a good example of both the strengths and limitations which a perspective anchored firmly in the scholarly mainstream can offer to our knowledge of how the global political economy is organized. -- Randall Germain * International Affairs * McNamara's book brings much good political and economic sense to bear on a subject where it is often lacking. -- Alan S. Milward * The Times Literary Supplement * The Currency of Ideas has much to offer those desiring to learn more about the forces driving monetary integration in Europe. * British Politics Group Newsletter * A significant contribution to our understanding of the relationship between ideas and political and economic decisions. * Governance: An International Journal of Policy and Administration * An exhaustive case study.... McNamara's book provides a wealth of valuable detail on the path taken by European elites to develop a coordinated monetary policy and ultimately, a shared currency. * Society for Women in International Political Economy Newsletter * It is the prevailing wisdom that economic forces have driven Europe toward the adoption of its single currency, the euro, and that political forces have played a secondary role, if that. It is refreshing, therefore, to find a book that takes politics seriously in what is surely a political situation (as well as an economic one). McNamara considers not just politics but the ideas that condition political decisions and the environment in which those ideas are developed. An interesting book.... Well written with many useful references. * Choice * Kathleen McNamara's book is a welcome addition to the small but growing collection of scholarship which straddles the political/economic divide in order to understand contemporary developments in the global political economy.... Together with another recent Cornell publication, Louis Pauly's Who Elected the Bankers, McNamara's work provides a good example of both the strengths and limitations which a perspective anchored firmly in the scholarly mainstream can offer to our knowledge of how the global political economy is organized. -- Randall Germain * International Affairs * McNamara's book brings much good political and economic sense to bear on a subject where it is often lacking. -- Alan S. Milward * The Times Literary Supplement * The Currency of Ideas has much to offer those desiring to learn more about the forces driving monetary integration in Europe. * British Politics Group Newsletter * Author InformationKathleen R. McNamara is Assistant Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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