Frontmatter
Contents
List of Figures
Foreword
Abbreviations Used in Text
Introduction
1. A Napoleonic Prelude
2. The Origins of the Committee of Governors
3. The Response to Global Monetary Turbulence
4. The Snake and Other Animals
5. Negotiating the European Monetary System
6. The Malaise of the 1980s
7. The Delors Committee and the Relaunching of Europe
8. Designing a Central Bank
9. The EMS Crises
Conclusion: The Euro and the Legacy of the Committee of Governors
Appendix A: Maastricht Treaty Text and Committee of Governors' Draft of the Statute of the European Monetary Institute
Appendix B: Maastricht Treaty Text and Committee of Governors' Draft of the Statute of the European Central Bank
Appendix C: Dramatis Personae
Appendix D: Members of the Committee of Governors
Appendix E: Committee for the Study of Economic and Monetary Union (Delors Committee), 1988- 1989
Appendix F: Chairmen of the Monetary Committee of the European Community, 1958- 1998
Appendix G: European Commission Presidents and Commissioners for Economics and Finance, 1958-
Appendix H: Chronology
Appendix I: Interest Rates and Fiscal Balance
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index