Architects of the Euro Intellectuals in the Making of European Monetary Union

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.

1 - Intellectuals as Policy Makers: Biography and the History of European Monetary Union
2 - Robert Triffin: The Arch Monetarist in the Process of European Monetary Integration?
3 - Robert Marjolin: Securing the Common Market through Economic and Monetary Union
4 - Raymond Barre: Modernizing France through European Monetary Cooperation
5 - Pierre Werner: A Visionary European and Consensus Builder
6 - Roy Jenkins and the Importance of Top-Level Politics
7 - Hans Tietmeyer, Ethical Ordo-liberalism, and the Architecture of EMU: Getting the Fundamentals Right
8 - Karl-Otto Pöhl: The Pole Position
9 - Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa: EMU as the Anchor Stone for Building a Federal Europe
10 - Jacques Delors: Vision, Revisionism, and the Design of EMU
11 - Alexandre Lamfalussy: A Cassandra about Financial Stability
12 - Contributions, Legacies, and Lessons

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.