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European Monetary Union and Exchange Rate Dynamics: New Approaches and Application to the Euro
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The creation of the European Central Bank and the Euro have brought new challenges to EU integration and economic policy. This book looks into issues of monetary and factor market policies. The analysis also presents new theoretical and empirical research on the - transitory - decline of the Euro. Issues of exchange rate policy and international economic relations also are addressed.
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Why was the European Monetary System in 1992-93 swept by waves of disruptive speculative attacks? And what lessons emerged from that episode as regards the future of the European Monetary Union? This book provides a comprehensive assessment of the causes and implications of the 1992-93 crisis of the exchange rate mechanism. Cogent factual presentation, original theoretical analysis, and an interpretation rooted in theory, make this treatment by three leading economists essential reading to understand the process toward economic and political integration in Europe.
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The Rotten Heart of Europe: The Dirty War for Europe's Money
Bernard Connolly
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BRILLIANT! There's SO much good to be said about this book..........2007-01-07
If you wanted to know really what is going on in the EC, this is the book to read. It will give you insights into the political systems, which influences the monetary system, trading and the agenda they are following. Not to mention their bullying of countries to get their way.
When was the last time in a civilized, DEMOCRATIC society have we seen free speech outlawed? How about now. Now in the EU it is against the lau to express you opinion, your criticism, of what the political beast is doing. That means you cannot speak out against wrong doings of institutions and political figures.
That ruling alone did away with British common Law and over 50 years of european civil liberties. Where will it end? A totalitarian regime?
Some say THAT is just around the corner.
The author of this book got into HOT water for writing it. I hope this is not something that will foreshadow this type of activity happening here.
This book is a wake up call. If it is happening in the EU, what kind of ramifications will fall on us?
I have bought this as a present for friends interested in monetary policy and international affairs. I shudder to think of the impact the EU will have with a weakened US international policy. I can only envision them as growing threat to us economically and shudder to think of how a potentially fascist EU.
Buy this book.
Superb demolition of the EU.......2001-05-15
Review of The Rotten Heart of Europe: the dirty war for Europe's money, by Bernard Connolly, Faber & Faber, 1995, £17.50.
THIS BRILLIANT book is a devastating exposure of the pretensions of those who want to rule Europe. It shows that the attempts to achieve monetary and economic union, and consequently political union, are bad for us. They will not bring monetary stability, economic growth or political harmony. Instead they will destabilise currencies, reduce growth and promote hatred between the nations of Europe.
Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) is supposed to build on the experience of the Exchange Rate Mechanism (ERM). Britain's membership of the ERM forced us into a disastrous and quite unnecessary recession. After two years of suffering, Major said in July 1992 that Britain would soon be the leader of the ERM. Two months later, we were well out of it, and ERM had bermbed, as Jacques Clouseau, Major's mentor, would say.
ERM constrained British Government policy on non-monetary matters too. The Government appeased Spain over the fishing dispute to keep Spain happy about the sterling/peseta rate. So the Common Fisheries Policy, so damaging to Britain's fishing industry, is not an isolated EU aberration: it stems from the whole logic of economic and monetary union.
The ERM was described as the Eternal Recession Mechanism; EMU is likely to be Even More Useless. The ERM kept the poor countries poor; it did not help them to converge; it certainly did not help them to meet the Maastricht criteria. Spain's experience of ERM was catastrophic: 22% unemployed. The ERM forced Denmark into recession: unemployment doubled to 12%, the budget was slashed, and investment, output and wages all fell. In the ERM, Ireland's unemployment soared from 11% to 23%. ERM subordinated nations' economic interests to minorities' foreign policy goals: ruling class interests dominated working class interests. Some still claim that ERM and EMU could control capital, but actually they were and are attacks on the working class.
A 1992 report by the Monetary Committee, which advises the EU's Council of Ministers, admitted that ERM did not stabilise prices or money and did not reduce inflation. Perhaps it was after all just a tool for moving countries towards political union.
The book also depicts the present dangerous struggle between the French and German ruling classes for control over the proposed institutions of a single European state. Germany is determined to keep the Deutschmark and the Bundesbank: it wants EMU so that it can assimilate other countries into an expanded Deutschmark zone. France wants a new currency and wants to get its hands on the Bundesbank; it pushed for the Maastricht Treaty, which would destroy the Deutschmark. Who would control Europe's currency? Who would control the proposed new European Central Bank? Germany or France?
As Wilhelm Nolling, a Bundesbank Council member, said: "We should be under no illusion - the present controversy over the new European monetary order is about power, influence and the pursuit of national interests."
They are already fighting about the 1996 InterGovernmental Conference. Germany wants the economic criteria for EMU met as soon as possible: it insists that economic convergence must precede monetary union. France wants the earliest possible date for monetary union, believing that monetary union would produce economic convergence. Both are wrong of course: convergence cannot and will not be achieved, either way.
EMU's implications are universally unpopular. The workers of France, Italy and Belgium are striking against the EU's schemes. The Austrian Government fell in October, unable to pass the EU-required budget.
We can see both from ERM's effects, and from the effects of the attempted imposition of the Maastricht criteria, how damaging membership of EMU would be. It would cause, as intended, a permanent lowering of wages, a permanently higher level of unemployment, and massive cuts in public spending.
Connolly sums up: "My central thesis is that the ERM and EMU are not only inefficient but also undemocratic: a danger not only to our wealth but to our freedoms and ultimately, our peace. The villains of the story - some more culpable than others - are bureaucrats and self-aggrandizing politicians. The ERM is a mechanism for subordinating the economic welfare, democratic rights and national freedom of citizens of the European countries to the will of political and bureaucratic elites whose power-lust, cynicism and delusions underlie the actions of the vast majority of those who now strive to create a European superstate. The ERM has been their chosen instrument, and they have used it cleverly."
Overwhelming.......2000-10-23
Bernard Connolly was fired by the European bureaucrats after this book came out. If you read this book you will understand why. This book has all the detail you could ask for. It is an incredible expose of the events leding up to European Monetary Union.
If you support the European Community, reading this book will change your mind -- if you dare read it.
Excellent.......1999-03-22
Excellent work. The reality at the core of all the pomp-and-circumstance surrounding EMU. Read it and be wiser.
the best work written on the process of monetary integration.......1998-05-12
Bernard Connelly has written the consummate "expose" on the Maastricht treaty and the process of European monetary integration. Connelly, a former member of the European Commission, blows the lid off the Maastricht treaty and the intransigence of Jaques Delors and the Kohl-Mitterand relationship, which led to the European Monetary Union (EMU) provisions in Maastricht. This is at heart story of the politics of monetary policy, especially the failed Exchange Rate Mechanism (ERM), with three primary themes: the primacy of politics in determining monteray policy, the role of "vision" and "ideology" in determining policy, and the comedy of errors which was the ERM. One should not let the economics of this book prevent them from reading it. At heart, this is a great story and has the intrigue of the best historical novel. Connelly has written a factual tale containing a heroine (Baroness Thatcher), villians (Delors, Kohl, Trichet, Mitterand, Tietmeyer), and Alphandery, the innocent whistle-blower who brings the ERM crashing down. Connelly provides any reader interested in knowing about the lunacy of European monetary integration just why this idea is flawed, and provides economic evidence to defend his primary arguments. Among the more important and convincing conclusions reached in this work are: the necessity of flexible exchange rates, the inherent negatives of Europhilism (and especially Franco-philism, since "Europe" is seen as way to prevent the rise of "Anglo-Saxon" institutions), and the belief in free, competitive markets. A final comment one feels obligated to make about this book is its timeliness, and his villification of France, which is supported by following the recent row over the control of the European Central Bank. If one wants to read one book on why the EMU was really founded, and why it won't work-this is the book.
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Approaches to Exchange Rate Policy
Richard C. Barth
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External sector policies and exchange rate policy are central to a country's economic performance and to the IMF's surveillance functions. The papers in this book were presented at a seminar on Exchange Rate Policy in Developing and Transition Economies held by the IMF Institute. They analyze choices of exchange rate regimes, issues affectingmanagement of exchange regimes, and specific types of regimes, including case studies from the former Soviet Union, Africa, Asia, and Latin America.
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Aspects of European Monetary Integration: The Politics of Convergence
Alison M. S. Watson
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This book provides a thorough knowledge of the nature of the convergence criteria which states must meet in order to qualify for accession to the future Economic and Monetary Union of Europe and comprehensive coverage of both the economic and political rationale of the criteria within the framework of an international political economy approach. Thus, throughout the course of the analysis, three questions in particular are addressed: first, what is the relationship between the economics and politics of the convergence criteria; second, how do domestic and international factors impact upon their future realisation; and third what, overall, is the role of the state. This book gives valuable insights into the Economic and Monetary Union debate.
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Balance of Payments, Exchange Rates, and Competitiveness in
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Integrating transition economies into the global commercial and trade market system is a prolonged and risky process. This book is a collection of studies dealing with the different issues related to the liberalization of external relations in economies moving from a socialist to a market-based system The focus is on external sector developments, and the topics deal with balance of payments conditions, exchange rate policies and regimes, international competitiveness, international capital flows, trade, and other matters related to the integration of transition economies into the world economy. An understanding of the principles involved and of the experiences of both transition and advanced economies during this process is crucial to ensure its ultimate success. Written by internationally recognized scholars, the chapters cover these issues in a systematic manner. The first section treats current account developments, capital flows, and exchange rate policies in transition countries, the second section deals with specific issues related to international trade, and the final section consists of six specific country experiences. In this final section, a chapter dealing with the Russian Federation discusses the collapse of the ruble in August 1998.
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Black Wednesday: A Re-Examination of Britain's Experience in the Exchange Rate Mechanism
Alan Budd
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Stabilizing the exchange rate is a major monetary policy goal in a number of CIS countries. We present a technical traders-fundamentalists model of the foreign exchange market that allows us to classify de facto exchange rate management and derive a market based measure of the credibility of these exchange rate regimes. In our empirical analysis we compare the exchange rate policies of Belarus, Kazakhstan, Russia and Ukraine with the benchmark of three candidates for EU accession, namely Bulgaria, Romania and Turkey. Our results indicate that markets assign a relatively high degree of credibility to the exchange rate management of the CIS countries. The paths to credibility, however, were quite different.
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The Debate on Money in Europe
Alberto Giovannini
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Recent years have witnessed one of the most exciting and wide-ranging debates in monetary economics as some of the largest and richest European countries decide whether to replace their national moneys with a common currency. This collection by one of the leading experts on the subject touches on all the major points in that debate. Written from 1985 to 1992, the essays address in a clear and cogent manner such topics as the transition to a European monetary system, the design and functioning of a European Central Bank, currency reform, capital inflow, and exchange rate.
Alberto Giovannini's ideas have often influenced the debate on European money in academic and policy circles. In 1985, Giovannini was writing about a possible European monetary union before anyone else, and the European Commission subsequently adopted his reasoning in its report recommending a unified currency. His work inspired the fiscal restraints on individual countries that became an important element in the Maastricht Treaty. And he accurately predicted the exchange rate crisis in Europe a year before it happened. All of this groundbreaking work is included here. Although most of the chapters have been previously published, two are new, and two are significantly revised (most were written in 1990-1992). An introduction reviews the European situation up the summer of 1994.
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Practical AND Inspirational.......1999-06-14
I don't really consider myself a business book buyer . . .even though, technically, I'm a business owner. But I saw the author on Great Day America and really liked what she had to say. Not surprisingly, the book was just as informative and encouraging as the author. This isn't a book you just buy and put on your shelf. Use it!
A great find for the new year . . . and my new life........1999-01-02
Lots of books tell you how to start a business and even more show how THEY did it, but this is the first book I've found that gently told ME how I could create and start a business that was uniquely my own. After years of working for someone else, I'm now ready to jump out on my own. And I'm going to use Enterprising Woman as my primary reference book.
A great "how-to" and reference book in one!.......1998-10-18
I admit that I wasn't all that thrilled when my aunt gave me a "book" for my MBA graduation present. It felt a lot like getting socks and underwear for Christmas as a kid when you really wanted a new bike. And after years of hitting the books, I was in no hurry to pick up another one.Needless, to say, it's taken me a few months to actually pick up The Enterprising Woman and take a look. And after reading the first couple of chapters, I realized that it's not only good, solid information-like I got in my $$$ business school-but there are all kinds of real life anecdotes of business owners (who ALL just happen to be women-very cool) talking about how THEY did it. Not only that, but the author has also put in a great deal of reference information, so you don't need to go hunting for important things like the number to the U.S. Patent Office. The Enterprising Woman turned out to be the best gift I got for graduation. I spent the money, went on the trip, already broke the CD player (oops, sorry, Dad), but I'm using this book a lot. The Patent Office number came in handy for my new software security business I'm developing, and the book's chapter on Intellectual Property really got me thinking.
The most helpful friend I've found for my business.......1997-12-07
The Enterprising Woman was a gift for me and my 2-year-old business. I've read it from cover to cover and it was really comforting to see that other women entrepreneurs have problems too...and they've survived. It's easy to get discouraged when you work for yourself. This book not only provides you with sage, well-researched information, but (as it promises) inspiration from lots of successful women who have gone through the same things you're bound to experience. I also like how Florence validates the qualities in women that make us good in business. You don't hear much of that these days. I've recommended this book to lots of people. If you're starting a business, YOU NEED TO READ THIS BOOK.
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An energetic entrepreneur as well as a politician who was a key player during the New Deal, Isabella Greenway blazed a trail for the remarkable women in Arizona politics today. Miller's meticulous biography captures a life of adventure and romance, from Edith Wharton's New York and life-long friendship with Eleanor Roosevelt to ventures into ranching, the airline industry, furniture manufacture, and hotel management.
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A Remarkable Woman; A Remarkable Book.......2006-01-18
Despite my years of interest in Arizona history (primarily 19th century), I never knew anything about Isabella Greenway beyond "the wife of Jack Greenway" (who I also knew almost nothing about).
What an oversight! She was a remarkable woman and this book does an excellent job of bringing her to life through the many letters that she wrote to her family, friends (such as Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt), and lovers.
Growing up on the periphery of New York high society in the 1890s, she was the "poor cousin" who socialized with the Roosevelts, Astors and many others. Following her NY debut, she married a much older man and then spent fifteen years living on a ranch outside of Silver City, NM as she nursed him through a long struggle with tuberculosis. For several years their home was a pair of wooden-floored tents and she spent her days building callouses as she hauled water, chopped wood and tended the horses and chickens. What a change from New York society life! But, her letters reveal a spirit that remained positive throughout her ordeal and her family developed an intense love for the west and the ranching life.
Her fortunes changed dramatically after the death of her husband when she married her longtime love, Jack Greenway, an extremely wealthy mining engineer and executive. Her happiness, however, was short-lived. Several years later, following her establishment of the Arizona Inn, she responded to a call to public service and ran successfully for Congress after transforming the Arizona Democratic party in her role as Arizona's National Democratic Committeewoman.
Through her use of resources from the AHS' extensive Greenway collection (several hundred boxes of materials) Author Kristie Miller has revealed the most intimate thoughts of Isabella Greenway to compose a remarkable portrait of a most remarkable woman. It is very well written and reflects her meticulous research skills. Interestingly, while her public life is adequately covered, it was the glimpses into her personal relationships that intrigued me the most.
The biography of an amazing woman.......2004-11-11
Isabella Greenway: An Enterprising Woman is the biography of an amazing woman, who played a crucial role in FDR's nomination for President. Married and widowed twice to two of Theodore Roosevelt's rough riders, an energetic businessperson who managed a ranch, an airline, and a resort, a leader who was elected to Congress as Arizona's only U.S. Representative, and was dubbed the "most talked-about woman" at the National Democratic Convention by the New York Times, her contribution to women's role in politics is nothing less than trailblazing. Illustrated with a scattering of black-and-white photographs, Isabella Greenway: An Enterprising Woman chronicles her life in a narrative manner as vibrant and evocative as Greenway herself must have once been.
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