Intro -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Foreword by Mario Draghi and Jaime Caruana -- Abbreviations Used in Text -- Introduction: The Making of a Non-National Currency -- 1. A Napoleonic Prelude -- 2. The Origins of the Committee of Governors -- 3. The Response to Global Monetary Turbulence --...

Europe’s financial crisis cannot be blamed on the Euro, Harold James contends in this probing exploration of the whys, whens, whos, and what-ifs of European monetary union. The current crisis goes deeper, to a series of problems that were debated but not resolved at the time of the Euro’s...