Betting for and Against Emu: Who Wins and Loses in Italy and in the Uk from the Process of European Monetary Integration

Betting For and Against EMU analyzes the extent to which the outcomes of the process of European monetary integration and, particularly, of the development of the debate over the establishment of EMU, have been influenced by domestic politics and by domestic economic interest groups in Italy and in the United Kingdom.From an empirical point of view this book provides a thorough account of the development of Italian and British socioeconomic interest groups towards the issue of European monetary union from the making of the EMS until the establishment of EMU.