UID:
edoccha_9959148201702883
Format:
1 online resource (265 p.)
ISBN:
1-134-27226-X
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1-134-27227-8
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1-280-41408-1
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9786610414086
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0-203-69539-9
Content:
To date, critical analysis of the EMU project has largely been advanced from the centre-right spectrum of British politics. Comparable questions from the centre-left have failed to find a coherent voice. Although, the European fault-line cannot be characterized as a neat Left-Right issue there are noticeable divisions in opinion across British business, the trade union movement and within the Labour Party. Offering a unique insight into this key debate from the 'centre-left', eurosceptic view point, this book provides a rigorous analysis of all the salient economic and politic
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Book Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations; Notes on Contributors; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. The Left and the Euro; 2. The Great Debate: The Labour Party and European Integration; 3. Economic Consequences for Britain; 4. What Type of European Monetary Union?; 5. Economic Performance and the Euro; 6. The Euro: An Outsider's Perspective; 7. The ECB in Theory and Practice; 8. The Left Must Wake up - Europe Isn't Working; 9. A Post-Keynesian Strategy for the UK Economy; 10. The European Social Model: Myth or Reality
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11. Voting No - The Euro and Labour Voters12. What Future in the European Union?; 13. Hooked to the Falling Stars; 14. A Safe European Home?; 15. British Trade Unions and EMU: Natural Supporters or Conflicting Interests?; 16. The European Social Model: Between a Rock and a Hard Place?; 17. How the Euro Threatens the Well-being of the Planet and its People; 18. EMU and British Sovereignty; 19. Euro Versus the People; 20. The Establishment of a Commonwealth of Europe; 21. Fighting Against Federalism; 22. Rediscovering Progressive Economic Policy Outside EMU; Glossary; Bibliography; Index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-415-38071-5
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-415-34952-4
Language:
English
DOI:
10.4324/9780203695395
