00647nam a2200097Ia 450000500170000010000210001724500550003826000090009352004280010258300190053020260716043316.0  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