Students are highly recommended to have a look at the following preliminary literature:
Buonanno, Laurie/Nugent, Neill (2013): Policies and Policy Processes of the European Union, Basingstoke: Palgrave, ch. 10, pp. 191-225; on the Economic and Monetary Union (or respective other editions, which you find e.g. under the following library signature: D01 PEN6151(7)_d).
**Some of the discussed aspects are prerequisites for actively participating the course.**
Alternatively, students may consider Wallace/Wallce and Pollack (2005): Policy-Making in the European Union, OUP, ch. 6 on the Economic and Monetary Union, pp. 141-160.
Also, those being especially interested in some (rather short) background reading on more general questions on the linkages of monetary integration and the European economy and society might consider the following post of Andrew Baker (and respective links): http://speri.dept.shef.ac.uk/2016/04/05/what-is-money-for/
For those, being more interested in the economics part, I recommend additionally to the Buoanno and Nugent text the following:
De Grauwe, Paul (2012): Economics of monetary union, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Further, students might consider the following, more general contributions:
Streeck, Wolfgang (2014)[2013]: Buying Time. The Delayed Crisis of Democratic Capitalism, Verso.
Brecht, Berthold (1956)[1934]: Three Penny Novel ["Dreigroschenroman"], Grove Press. |