La moneta nel grande spazio. La pianificazione nazionalsocialista dell'integrazione monetaria europea, 1939-1945, Unicopli, Milano, 2011

The expression "Greater Space" was used in the 1930ies and 40ies to indicate the final form the world economy was heading to after the crisis of '29: no longer an integrated world system but one of regional economies. German economists and politicians widely assumed that the international economy was bound to converge on this model. When the Third Reich occupied Europe by force of arms during the Second World War, this concept seemed to become reality. The book examines the plans that the Nazi bureaucracy and economic elite developed since 1940 to create a joint European currency area centered on the Reichsmark. This was to be the pivot of the Reich’s political hegemony on the Continent after the end of the war. This integration program, on which the major institutions agreed in 1940, went into crisis in 1941-1943, because the German economic exploitation of Europe led its national economies into monetary chaos. Finally, with the looming defeat of Germany (1943-1945), the same elites planned a postwar in which Germany would no longer have a leading role on the continent."