00621nam a2200085Ia 4500100002600000245009100026260000900117520039000126583001900516  aMcNAMARA, Kathleen R.  aConsensus and constraint : ideas and capital mobility in European monetary integration  c1999  aPresents a simple macroeconomic model for understanding the implications of capital mobility for monetary co-operation and then applies it to the historical experience of post-war Europe with fixed exchange rate regimes.  Analyses the role of ideas in monetary policy-making and describes their impact on European monetary integration.  Considers the future of European monetary union.  c3/7/00kM2LMGR