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usually a more powerful force than animal spirits in the business world. There are good arguments for managerial liberalism, particularly in its technocratic form. Giving central banks independence from political interference helped to tame inflation. Creating rules-based trading systems unleashed growth in the emerging world and flooded the rich world with cheap
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, 198 Cavendish, William 11 censorship 34, 40, 41, 53, 177, 214 Center for Excellence in Education 273–4 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 246 central bank independence 149 central government 57, 252 centre, political/centrists activist meritocracy and 268 double liberalism and 238 illiberal ideas take root amongst 98 liberal-populist dialectic
by Trevor Jackson · 15 Mar 2026 · 270pp · 104,133 words
isn’t backed by anything, early modern sovereigns had a far wider variety of tools at their disposal for monetary manipulations than modern governments with independent central banks. Second, the monetary chaos meant that there was a reward for establishing stability. The Bank of Amsterdam, established in 1609, was one such solution. It
by Hans Kundnani · 16 Aug 2023 · 198pp · 54,815 words
Helmut Kohl to agree to finally move ahead. In return for his agreement, the new currency was created largely on German terms, with a “hyper-independent” central bank based on the Bundesbank that was committed almost exclusively to preventing inflation, and fiscal rules that set limits on deficits and debts.6 The creation
by Michael Lind · 20 Feb 2020
immigrants at home. And wages and unemployment levels are affected by many other factors, including changes in tax laws, reclassification of employees as independent contractors, zero-hours contracts, central bank austerity policies, and, in the US, the continuing practice of interregional labor arbitrage among states and the erosion of the minimum wage by
by Mckenzie Funk · 22 Jan 2014 · 337pp · 101,281 words
worked. The class erupted. “Integration is a slippery slope,” said McKeown. A student on the far side of the room agreed. “We could lose our central-banking independence, our monetary independence, our social democratic Canadianism,” he said. “Our sovereignty is us, right? Without it we lose independent policy all over the board.” “Has
by Mick Hume · 23 Feb 2017 · 228pp · 68,880 words
actions of the New Labour government, which gave the Bank these powers to set interest rates while floating above democratic politics.) When technocrats talk about ‘independent’ central banks, the key thing is that they should be independent of any democratic interference by the millions who pay the price for their policies. They seriously
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needs, be left to decide? No, better by far we are told to entrust the setting of interest rates to the independent experts in the Bank of England, the European Central Bank and the US Federal Reserve. Never mind that millions of people’s lives will be directly affected by whatever the bankers
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its place, but its place is apparently not at the financial top table with the City money-men and Euro-bankers. The important thing about ‘independent’ central banks is that they are supposed to be independent of any political interference – otherwise known as democratic control. The central banks were handed these powers by
by William Davies · 28 Sep 2020 · 210pp · 65,833 words
sought to reassure international investors that they will stick to predictable regulatory, monetary and fiscal frameworks. Various instruments have been invented to achieve this, from central bank independence, which removes monetary policy from the domain of democratic politics, to the ‘stability and growth pact’ that has limited European Union member states’ fiscal freedoms
by Robert Skidelsky · 3 Mar 2020 · 290pp · 76,216 words
it not as connected to ideology or politics but to something objective like physics or chemistry. It is surely no coincidence that the policy of central bank independence depends largely on the acceptance that economics is a science, and thus the decisions of a central bank are technical, rather than political, in nature
by Kwasi Kwarteng, Priti Patel, Dominic Raab, Chris Skidmore and Elizabeth Truss · 12 Sep 2012
and Director of the National Economic Council for President Obama. In the late 1980s, he had written an influential paper arguing for the benefits of independent central banks. Other influences at Harvard included Lawrence Katz, who became chief economist at the Labour Department, and Robert Reich who served as Secretary of Labour.52
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immigration system 36 spending cuts 17–18 CDOs (collateralised debt obligations) 47, 48 CDSs (credit default swaps) 47 celebrity culture 4, 74–5, 76, 115 central banks independence 25, 27 see also Bank of England Centre for Economics and Business Research 101 Centre for Social Justice 67, 70, 73 Charles II, King of
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his decision on the euro when Labour entered office. It was to make the Bank of England independent, not to hand authority to the European Central Bank. Bank independence was the high-water mark of Labour’s embrace of the neoliberal idea that the economy was best governed by expert rules, not cack-handed
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