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Business & Economics Money & Monetary Policy

Towards North American Monetary Union?

The Politics and History of Canada's Exchange Rate Regime

by (author) Eric Helleiner

Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
Initial publish date
May 2006
Category
Money & Monetary Policy
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780773530560
    Publish Date
    May 2006
    List Price
    $45.95
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780773531789
    Publish Date
    Jun 2007
    List Price
    $34.95
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780773582408
    Publish Date
    May 2006
    List Price
    $29.95

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Helleiner finds little support in the U.S. for the concessions that would be necessary to make a North American monetary union palatable in Canada. Comparing the U.S. Federal Reserve and the European Monetary Union, he argues that the influence of Canada within a North American monetary union would be far less than that of individual countries within the European community. He also considers the seemingly paradoxical support of Quebec sovereignists for free trade and monetary union.

About the author

Eric Helleiner is a chair of international public policy, Centre for International Governance Innovation, and associate professor, political science, University of Waterloo. He is the author of several books, including States and the Re-emergence of Global Finance and The Making of National Money: Territorial Currencies in Historical Perspective.

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