Architects of the Euro. Intellectuals in the Making of European Monetary Union (Dyson and Maes eds)

Architects of the Euro
Intellectuals in the Making of European Monetary Union
Edited by Kenneth Dyson and Ivo Maes

Hardback. Published: 18 August 2016, 336 Pages, ISBN: 9780198735915

Oxford University Press

Who were key figures in the making of European monetary union? Which ideas did they contribute to ensuring that monetary union would be sustainable? How prescient were they in identifying the necessary and sufficient foundations of a sustainable monetary union?

This book provides the first systematic historical examination of key architects of European monetary union in the period before its launch in 1999. Using original archival and interview research, it investigates the intellectual and career backgrounds of these architects, their networking skills, and their own doubts and reservations about the way in which monetary union was being constructed. In the light of the later Euro Area, Architects of the Euro deals critically with not just their contribution to the making of European monetary union but also their legacy. The book brings together a distinguished group of scholars working on the history of Economic and Monetary Union.

Table of contents
Foreword, Jan Smets
1: Intellectuals as Policy Makers: Biography and the History of European Monetary Union, Kenneth Dyson and Ivo Maes
2: Robert Triffin: The Arch Monetarist in the Process of European Monetary Integration?, Ivo Maes and Eric Bussière
3: Robert Marjolin: Securing the Common Market through Economic and Monetary Union, Katja Seidel
4: Raymond Barre: Modernizing France through European Monetary Cooperation, David Howarth
5: Pierre Werner: A Visionary European and Consensus Builder, Elena Danescu
6: Roy Jenkins and the Importance of Top-Level Politics, Piers Ludlow
7: Hans Tietmeyer, Ethical Ordo-liberalism, and the Architecture of EMU: Getting the Fundamentals Right, Kenneth Dyson
8: Karl-Otto Pöhl: The Pole Position, Harold James
9: Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa: EMU as the Anchor Stone for Building a Federal Europe, Fabio Masini
10: Jacques Delors: Vision, Revisionism, and the Design of EMU, Dermot Hodson
11: Alexandre Lamfalussy: A Cassandra about Financial Stability, Ivo Maes
12: Contributions, Legacies, and Lessons, Kenneth Dyson and Ivo Maes

 

Kenneth Dyson is a Fellow of the British Academy, a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, a Founding Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales, and Research Professor in European Political Studies at Cardiff University. His research interests encompass the European state, German policies and politics, comparative and international political economy, and the EU. His recent publication States, Debt, and Power: ‘Saints’ and ‘Sinners’ in European History and Integration (OUP, 2014) won the UACES Best Book Prize.

Ivo Maes is Senior Advisor at the Research Department of the National Bank of Belgium and a Professor, Robert Triffin Chair, at the Université Catholique de Louvain, as well as at ICHEC Brussels Management School. In 2003, he was a member of the Committee for Institutional Reform of the West African Monetary Union. He has been a visiting professor at Duke University (USA), the Université de Paris-Sorbonne and the Università Roma Tre. He is the Chair of the Council of the European Society for the History of Economic Thought.

 

Il volume sarà commentato in un seminario, organizzato dalla School of European Political Economy LUISS, il 3 aprile 2017, alle 15:30, Aula Toti, Viale Romania 32, Roma

Programma

Indirizzi di saluto
Beatrice Covassi Capo della Rappresentanza in Italia della Commissione Europea

Presentazione del volume
Ivo Maes Università di Louvain, National Bank of Belgium

Tavola rotonda 
Coordina
Carlo Bastasin School of European Political Economy LUISS

Interventi
Marco Buti Direttore Generale per gli Affari economici e finanziari della Commissione Europea
Fiorella Kostoris “Sapienza” Università di Roma
Marcello Messori Direttore School of European Political Economy LUISS
Stefano Micossi Presidente del Consiglio Scientifico School of European Political Economy LUISS
Fabrizio Saccomanni School of European Political Economy LUISS
Gianni Toniolo School of European Political Economy LUISS

Conclusioni
Paola Severino Rettore LUISS
Pier Carlo Padoan Ministro dell’Economia e delle Finanze