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Economist or Monetarist? The Difficult Creation of an Internal French Consensus about European Monetary Integration, 1974-1976
Within the monetary sphere, the 1970s were characterised by the opposition between two strategies for integration at the European level: the “economists” vs. “monetarists” debate. This chapter concentrates on the specific case of the monetary initiatives taken by France in 1974 and 1975.