TY - BOOK AU - James,Harold AU - Draghi,Mario AU - Caruana,Jaime TI - Making the European monetary union SN - 978-0-674-06683-0 U1 - 332.494 21E PY - 2012/// CY - Cambridge, MA PB - Harvard University Press KW - Monetary policy KW - European Union countries KW - Europe KW - Economic integration N1 - Notes bibliogr; List of figures -- Foreword / by Mario Draghi -- A Napoleonic prelude -- The origins of the committee -- The response to global monetary turbulence : Barre and Werner -- The snake and other animals -- Negotiating the European monetary system -- The malaise of the 1980s -- The Delors committee and the relaunching of the central bank governors -- Designing a central bank -- The EMS crises -- Conclusion: the euro and the legacy of the Committee of Governors -- Appendix A: The governors' drafts and the treaty text of the statutes of the ECB and EMI -- Appendix B: Members of the committee of governors -- Appendix C: Dramatis personae -- Appendix D: Chronology -- Appendix E: Figures -- Abbreviations used in the text -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index ER -