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Prospects For The European Monetary System

Edited by Piero Ferri
Reviewed by By William Diebold, Jr.
Summer 1991
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Edited by Piero Ferri
St. Martin's
1990
260 pp.

In these papers from a 1989 conference at the University of Bergamo, a number of well-qualified European economists (about half of them Italian) dig into some major questions concerning the economic and financial aspects of "a central pillar of the European system."

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