 Some Critical Remarks on Alain Parguez’s “Economic Theories of Social Order and the Origins of the Euro”Bertrand de Largentaye International Journal of Political Economy, 2016, vol. 45, issue 1, 25-32 Abstract: This article focuses on the developments following World War II that led to the creation of the single currency. It will point out how the initial diverging political and economic positions of France and Germany gradually moved toward a degree of convergence. After the death of President Pompidou, France discarded the approach stressing national sovereignty in monetary affairs that had been a feature of Gaullist foreign policy. After the fall of the Berlin Wall, Germany found that the single currency was not just the natural adjunct of the single market, which, at the time, had been the main argument used to sponsor it: the single currency appeared as a way of anchoring Germany’s future to Europe and thus was instrumental in getting Germany’s European partners, beginning with France, to endorse German reunification. The article examines how monetary union became divorced from the economic union that was supposed to accompany it. It looks at the way the monetary union has led to the adoption of deflationary policies in a number of European countries, and how this could be its death knell. Date: 2016 Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:mes:ijpoec:v:45:y:2016:i:1:p:25-32 Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from DOI: 10.1080/08911916.2016.1159081 Access Statistics for this article More articles in International Journal of Political Economy from Taylor & Francis Journals |
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