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Money and the Economy

Central Bankers' Views

Palgrave Macmillan

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
  2. Introduction Between ‘a Science’ and ‘an Art’: Central Banks and the Political Economy of Money

  3. The Nature and Functions of the Central Bank

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 45-45
    2. Some Thoughts on Central Banking

      • Lord Cobbold
      Pages 47-56
    3. The Role of the Central Banker Today

      • Louis Rasminsky
      Pages 57-78
  4. Experience with Monetary Management

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 93-93
    2. ‘Noise’

      • Luigi Einaudi
      Pages 121-125
    3. Thirty Years of the Deutschmark

      • Otmar Emminger
      Pages 127-146
    4. The Anguish of Central Banking

      • Arthur F. Burns
      Pages 147-166
    5. Central Banking with the Benefit of Hindsight

      • Jelle Zijlstra
      Pages 167-183
  5. The Central Bank and Commercial Banks

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 185-185
    2. Banks and Economic Policy

      • Reinhard Kamitz
      Pages 187-196
    3. The Banking Act 1979

      • Lord O’Brien
      Pages 197-213
    4. Why Banks Are Unpopular

      • Guido Carli
      Pages 215-230
  6. The International Dimensions of Central Banking

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 243-243

Editors and Affiliations

  • Central Manager for Central Bank Operations, Banca d’Italia, Italy

    Pierluigi Ciocca

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