00618nam a2200085Ia 4500100002100000245005500021260000900076520042800085583001900513  aSANDHOLTZ, Wayne  aChoosing union : monetary politics and Maastricht.  c1993  aArgues that a drastic shift in the macroeconomic policies of several national governments was a necessary precondition for serious consideration of monetary union.  Points out that monetary union was just one option for a European monetary regime, and traces the chain of decisions leading to the conference on monetary union. Concludes that EC governments favoured monetary union for different reasons, at different times.  c3/7/00kM2LMGR