Research Catalog

Title

Our currency, our country : the dangers of European monetary union / John Redwood.

Author

Redwood, John.

Publication

London ; New York : Penguin Books, 1997.

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Details

Description

ix, 214 p.; 20 cm.

Subject

• European Union
• Euro
• Monetary unions > European Union countries
• Currency question > European Union countries
• Monetary policy > European Union countries
• Monetary policy > Great Britain

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Pt. 1. Politics.
• 1. European integration does not stop wars. p. 3.
• 2. Creating a country called Europe. p. 13.
• 3. Europe of the regions. p. 34.
• Pt. 2. Economics.
• 4. Exchange Rate Mechanism. p. 45.
• 5. How states would lose control of their budgets. p. 64.
• 6. Why a single economic policy will not work. p. 70.
• 7. Why taxes would have to go up. p. 81.
• 8. Will we end up paying the old-age pensions for France and Germany?. p. 87.
• 9. Slower growth in the single currency. p. 95.
• 10. Why the City of London has to remain offshore from the euro. p. 118.
• Pt. 3. Costs of Transition.
• 11. Is the euro legal?. p. 133.
• 12. Stability Pact. p. 143.
• 13. costs to business. p. 152.
• 14. Transition -- the proposals. p. 161.
• 15. Can any country qualify for the single currency?. p. 174.
• Pt. 4. Europe That Works.
• 16. Renegotiation -- the best course. p. 191.
• 17. more prosperous Europe without the euro. p. 207.

ISBN

0140265236 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^^98115526^

OCLC

• 37254837
• SCSB-11634283

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library