Banking on Reform examines the political determinants of recent reforms to monetary policy institutions in the industrial democracies. With these reforms, polit

This book boldly challenges the conventional view that the state must play a dominant role in the monetary system.

This work presents a comprehensive history and evaluation of the role of the 100 percent reserve plan in the banking legislation of the New Deal reform era from

"Eminent historian of economics Elmus Wicker examines the events which spurred a series of banking panics beginning in 1893-94, that led to the creation of the

A central bank needs authority and a sphere of independent action. But a central bank cannot become an unelected czar with sweeping, unaccountable discretionary