Scandinavian Monetary Union after Iceland was elevated to a separate kingdom in union with Denmark in 1918. Iceland cut its ties to Denmark in 1944 and became a republic. The Icelandic króna soon became volatile, causing a high inflation and in 1980 a currency reform was introduced, in which 1 new Icelandic króna was set to 100 original ones.. The Scandinavian Monetary Union was inspired by the Latin Monetary Union, established in 1865. According to economic historians Ingrid Henriksen and Niels Kærgård:Was the Scandinavian Currency Union a success? Yes and no. When the Union functioned at its best, which was only from 1901
Wage unit Wage unit The wage unit is a unit of measurement for monetary quantities introduced by Keynes in his 1936 book "The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money" ("General Theory"). A value expressed in wage units is equal to its price in money units divided by the wage (in money units) of a man-hour of labour. The classical economists believed that the value of a product could be identified with the number of man-hours of labour which went into its production. This value was inherently real. Economic values can always be expressed in monetary terms except in a barter economy.