This volume critically examines the contributions and the legacies of the key figures who played a role in helping to design European monetary union.

• Foreword


• 1: Kenneth Dyson and Ivo Maes: Intellectuals as Policy Makers: Biography and the History of European Monetary Union


• 2: Ivo Maes and Eric Bussière: Robert Triffin: The Arch Monetarist in the Process of European Monetary Integration?


• 3: Katja Seidel: Robert Marjolin: Securing the Common Market through Economic and Monetary Union


• 4: David Howarth: Raymond Barre: Modernizing France through European Monetary Cooperation


• 5: Elena Danescu: Pierre Werner: A Visionary European and Consensus Builder


• 6: Piers Ludlow: Roy Jenkins and the Importance of Top-Level Politics


• 7: Kenneth Dyson: Hans Tietmeyer, Ethical Ordo-liberalism, and the Architecture of EMU: Getting the Fundamentals Right


• 8: Harold James: Karl-Otto Pöhl: The Pole Position


• 9: Fabio Masini: Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa: EMU as the Anchor Stone for Building a Federal Europe


• 10: Dermot Hodson: Jacques Delors: Vision, Revisionism, and the Design of EMU


• 11: Ivo Maes: Alexandre Lamfalussy: A Cassandra about Financial Stability


• 12: Kenneth Dyson and Ivo Maes: Contributions, Legacies, and Lessons

Kenneth Dyson is a Fellow of the British Academy, a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, a Founding Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales, and Research Professor in European Political Studies at Cardiff University. His research interests encompass the European state, German policies and politics, comparative and international political economy, and the EU. His recent publication States, Debt, and Power: 'Saints' and 'Sinners' in European History and Integration (OUP, 2014) won the UACES Best Book Prize.
Ivo Maes is Senior Advisor at the Research Department of the National Bank of Belgium and a Professor, Robert Triffin Chair, at the Université Catholique de Louvain, as well as at ICHEC Brussels Management School. In 2003, he was a member of the Committee for Institutional Reform of the West African Monetary Union. He has been a visiting professor at Duke University (USA), the Université de Paris-Sorbonne and the Università Roma Tre. He is the Chair of the Council of the European Society for the History of Economic Thought.