The economics and politics of monetary unions: a reassessment of
the Latin Monetary Union, 1865–71

FLANDREAU, MARC

doi:10.1017/s0968565000000020

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The economics and politics of monetary unions: a reassessment of the Latin Monetary Union, 1865–71

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MARC FLANDREAU

Abstract

In 1865, France, Belgium, Italy and Switzerland signed a monetary convention (later known as the Latin Union), which provided for the intercirculation of specie between member states. Conventional analyses of the treaty (such as that by Willis) have portrayed this arrangement as a by-product of Fren...

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