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

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Cornell Studies in Political EconomyPublisher: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019]Copyright date: ©1998Description: 1 online resource (256 p.)Content type:
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  • 9781501744532
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 332.4/943
LOC classification:
  • HG999.5.J64 1998
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  • online - DeGruyter
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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
Summary: 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 the political struggle to adopt monetarism in Germany and the United States.The Government of Money contends that the political involvement of monetarist economists was central to this endeavor. The book examines the initiatives undertaken by monetarists from 1970 to 1985 and the policies that resulted once their ideas were enacted. Taking a historical approach to major issues of political economy, Peter A. Johnson describes both the political efforts of the monetarist economists to convert central banks to their preferred policies and the resistance offered by traditionalist central bankers, politicians, and financial and labor interests.Johnson concludes that monetarist ideas succeeded in part because their supporters convincingly claimed that price stability would promote political stability. He thereby challenges important assumptions about politics and policymaking in both countries and reveals the often hidden influence of monetary policy on the health of capitalist democracies.
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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

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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 the political struggle to adopt monetarism in Germany and the United States.The Government of Money contends that the political involvement of monetarist economists was central to this endeavor. The book examines the initiatives undertaken by monetarists from 1970 to 1985 and the policies that resulted once their ideas were enacted. Taking a historical approach to major issues of political economy, Peter A. Johnson describes both the political efforts of the monetarist economists to convert central banks to their preferred policies and the resistance offered by traditionalist central bankers, politicians, and financial and labor interests.Johnson concludes that monetarist ideas succeeded in part because their supporters convincingly claimed that price stability would promote political stability. He thereby challenges important assumptions about politics and policymaking in both countries and reveals the often hidden influence of monetary policy on the health of capitalist democracies.

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In English.

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