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Although little noticed, the face of central banking has changed significantly over the past ten to fifteen years, says the author of this enlightening book. Al

In a study developed from his 1997 Ph.D. dissertation for the State University of New York-Buffalo, Banking and Politics in New York, 1784-1829, Wright (money a

Although central banking is today often presented as having emerged in the nineteenth or even twentieth century, it has a long and colourful history before 1800

The economic influence of central banks has received ever more attention given their centrality during the financial crises that led to the Great Recession, str