The rise of central banks : state power in financial capitalism /

"Central banks are supposed to stabilize markets, yet decades of mounting central bank power have seen wave after wave of financial crisis. Leon Wansleben offers novel explanations for the rise of central banks and the problematic implications of their finance-dependent policies"--

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Main Authors: Wansleben, Leon
Published: Harvard University Press,
Publisher Address: Cambridge, Massachusetts :
Publication Dates: 2023.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
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Summary: "Central banks are supposed to stabilize markets, yet decades of mounting central bank power have seen wave after wave of financial crisis. Leon Wansleben offers novel explanations for the rise of central banks and the problematic implications of their finance-dependent policies"--
Carrier Form: xvii, 328 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages [289]-318) and index.
ISBN: 9780674270510
0674270517
Index Number: HG1811
CLC: F830.31
Call Number: F830.31/W251
Contents: Neoliberalism and the Rise of Central Banks -- Monetarism and the Invention of Monetary Policy -- Hegemonizing Financial Expectations -- Money Markets as Infrastructures of Global Finance and Central Banks -- The Organization of Ignorance: How Central Bankers Abandoned Regulation -- Plumbing Financialization in Vain: Central Banking after 2008.