Description
This volume critically examines the contributions and the legacies of the key figures who played a role in helping to design European monetary union. 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 Universit 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 Universit de Paris-Sorbonne and the Universit Roma Tre. He is the Chair of the Council of the European Society for the History of Economic Thought.
