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  The Rise of Central Banks: State Power in Financial Capitalism

Wansleben, L. (2023). The Rise of Central Banks: State Power in Financial Capitalism. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. doi:10.4159/9780674287693.

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Wansleben, Leon1, Autor           
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1Soziologie öffentlicher Finanzen und Schulden, MPI for the Study of Societies, Max Planck Society, ou_3035385              

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 Zusammenfassung: While central banks have gained remarkable influence over the past fifty years, promising more stability, global finance has gone from crisis to crisis. How do we explain this development? Drawing on original sources ignored in previous research, The Rise of Central Banks offers a groundbreaking account of the origins and consequences of central banks’ increasing clout over economic policy.

Many commentators argue that ideas drove change, indicating a shift in the 1970s from Keynesianism to monetarism, concerned with controlling inflation. Others point to the stagflation crises, which put capitalists and workers at loggerheads. Capitalists won, the story goes, then pushed deregulation and disinflation by redistributing power from elected governments to markets and central banks. Both approaches are helpful, but they share a weakness. Abstracting from the evolving practices of central banking, they provide inaccurate accounts of recent policy changes and fail to explain how we arrived at the current era of easy money and excessive finance.

By comparing developments in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, and Switzerland, Leon Wansleben finds that central bankers’ own policy innovations were an important ingredient of change. These innovations allowed central bankers to use privileged relationships with expanding financial markets to govern the economy. But by relying on markets, central banks fostered excessive credit growth and cultivated an unsustainable version of capitalism. Through extensive archival work and numerous interviews, Wansleben sheds new light on the agency of bureaucrats and calls upon society and elected leaders to direct these actors’ efforts to more progressive goals.

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Sprache(n): eng - English
 Datum: 2022-08-252023
 Publikationsstatus: Erschienen
 Seiten: xvii, 328
 Ort, Verlag, Ausgabe: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press
 Inhaltsverzeichnis: Preface
Introduction
1. Neoliberalism and the Rise of Central Banks
2. Monetarism and the Invention of Monetary Policy
3. Hegemonizing Financial Market Expectations
4. Money Markets as Infrastructures of Global Finance and Central Banks
5. The Organization of Ignorance: How Central Bankers Abandoned Regulation
6. Plumbing Financialization in Vain: Central Banking after 2008
Conclusion
Appendix
Notes
References
Index
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 Identifikatoren: ISBN: 978-0-674-27051-0
ISBN: 978-0-674-28769-3
ISBN: 978-0-674-28770-9
DOI: 10.4159/9780674287693
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