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

Wansleben, Leon,

The rise of central banks : state power in financial capitalism / Leon Wansleben. - Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2022. - pages cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

"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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Banks and banking, Central.
Monetary policy.
Capitalism--Government policy.
Financial crises.

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