Banking on Sterling (eBook)
167 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-0-7391-4412-1 (ISBN)
Banking on Sterling: Britain's Independence from the Euro Zone, by Ophelia Eglene, provides an in-depth analysis of the British policy on the European Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) over the past twenty years. Eglene demonstrates how the Conservative government of John Major and the Labour government of Tony Blair implemented policies that had the same overriding goals. The first of their shared goals was to continue being involved in decisions on the remaining details of the EMU and to avoid discrimination in the European Union by appearing as a member state willing to embrace the full European project at an indeterminate point. The second goal was to address the conflicting preferences of domestic economic actors with an ambiguous policy aimed at buying time. Pressure on the British government came from both the business and financial sectors on the question of EMU membership. While the business community was divided on the euro, there was one sector, export-oriented producers, strongly in favor. The financial sector, for its part, needed more time to clearly assess where its interests lay, and it insisted that the government not rush a decision one way or the other. Banking on Sterling demonstrates that the government_no matter which party was in power_always had in mind the welfare of the financial sector. When the conclusion was reached in London that its financial sector would benefit more from an offshore position than as a member of the EMU, the British government provided both direct and indirect compensation to the export-oriented business sector that had definitely lost the battle for the euro. Ophelia Eglene's Banking on Sterling: Britain's Independence from the Euro Zone effectively shows the unequal influence of business and finance on the British economy.
Ophelia Eglene is a visiting assistant professor in the political science department at Middlebury College.
Chapter 1 Tables Chapter 2 Figures Chapter 3 Abbreviations Chapter 4 Acknowledgments Chapter 5 Chapter One: Britain and the Euro: The Policy of Non-Decision Chapter 6 Chapter Two: Economic Actors and Monetary Policy Chapter 7 Chapter Three: The Structure of the British Economy Chapter 8 Chapter Four: The Conservative Party and EMU Chapter 9 Chapter Five: The Blair Years and the Euro Chapter 10 Chapter Six: Business and the Euro Chapter 11 Chapter Seven: The City and the Euro Chapter 12 Chapter Eight: Conclusion Chapter 13 Appendix Chapter 14 Bibliography Chapter 15 Index
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 16.12.2010 |
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Sprache | englisch |
Themenwelt | Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Finanzwissenschaft |
Schlagworte | Europe • International Studies |
ISBN-10 | 0-7391-4412-X / 073914412X |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-7391-4412-1 / 9780739144121 |
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