David Marsh

THE EURO - The Politics of the New Global Currency

DER EURO - Die geheime Geschichte der neuen Weltwährung

By David Marsh

This book, published in both English and German, is the first comprehensive political and economic account of the birth and development of the Euro. Both books will be available from January 2009.

Der Euro by David Marsh - Murmann Verlag The Euro by David Marsh - Yale University PressToday the Euro is the supranational currency for sixteen European countries (following the accession of Slovakia on 1 January) and the world’s second largest reserve currency. David Marsh tells the story of the rivalries, intrigues, and deal-making that brought about a currency for Europe, and he analyses the achievements and shortcomings of its first decade of existence.

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While the Euro represents a remarkable triumph of political will, great pressures are building on the single currency. Drawing on exclusive narrative accounts from all the pivotal players in the drama as well as hundreds of secret documents from international archives, Marsh underscores the Euro’s importance for the global economy, in particular for the U.S. and British economic and political agendas. He concludes by looking at the 2007-08 financial crisis and the ensuing world recession - developments which may shake the Euro to its very foundations.
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David Marsh is chairman of London and Oxford Capital Markets, a City of London-based corporate finance and investment company. He is also the author of The Bundesbank: The Bank That Rules Europe (1992) and Germany and Europe: The Crisis of Unity (1994).

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Wiebke Räber, London and Oxford Group, + 44 (0)20 7796 9911, wiebke.raeber@londonandoxford.com

For all other questions about the book, including reviews, please contact:

For English edition: Katie Harris, Yale University Press, + 44 (0)20 7079 4900, katie.harris@yaleup.co.uk

For German edition: Dagmar Landgrebe, Murmann Verlag, +49 (0)40 3980 8313, landgrebe@murmann-verlag.de

Hidden facts and fresh insights from The Euro

  • The book provides fresh insights into the behind-the-scenes Franco-German-British wrangling over European currency management – including the drama of Black Wednesday in 1992 when Britain left the ERM

  • Marsh examines the European Central Bank, the Euro’s stability after the credit crisis, the prospects for Euro expansion – and the chances that it could break up. He concludes that, in view of Britain’s monetary history and unusual uncertainties about the future,  the UK will not join the Euro at least until 2025

  • The book includes more than 100 interviews with personalities behind the Euro’s birth - including 15 past and present Finance Ministers, 13 Central Bank Governors, 10 Prime Ministers, 3 Foreign Ministers and 1 President

  
  Leading personalities who figure in the book include  
Pierre Bérégovoyy Denis Healey Helmut Schmidt Willy Brandt James Callaghan Jacques Chirac Jacques Delors
Tony Blair Hans-Dietrich Genscher Margaret Thatcher Valéry Giscard d'Estaing Édouard Balladur Elisabeth Guigou Henry Kissinger
John Maynard Keynes Helmut Kohl Wim Duisenberg Angela Merkel François Mitterrand Karl Otto Pöhl John Major
Gerhard Schröder Helmut Schlesinger Theo Waigel John F. Kennedy Jean-Claude Trichet Paul Volcker Hans Tietmeyer

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