The Government of Money : : Monetarism in Germany and the United States / / Peter A. Johnson.

In recent years governments have increasingly given their central banks the freedom to pursue policies of price stability. In particular, the German Bundesbank and the U.S. Federal Reserve have been widely considered models of autonomous policymaking. This book traces the origins of their success to...

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Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019]
©1998
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Cornell Studies in Political Economy
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Physical Description:1 online resource (256 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Abbreviations
  • CHAPTER ONE. The Problem of Economic Policy Innovation in Democracies
  • CHAPTER TWO. The Origins of the Bundesbank's Corporate Culture
  • CHAPTER THREE. The Bundesbank's Monetarist Regime Change, I970-I985
  • CHAPTER FOUR. The Origins of the Federal Reserve's Corporate Culture
  • CHAPTER FIVE. The Monetarist Revolution and the Fed, I970-I98J
  • CHAPTER 6. Central Banks as Guardians of Democracy
  • Notes
  • Index