"The Social Life of Central Banks. Development, Equality, and Political Economy"

Kindly supported by the Faculty of Historical and Cultural Studies at the University of Vienna and Sciences Po Toulouse

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Until very recently, central banks have been analyzed through the lens of monetary and financial stability only. Today, there have been calls for widening the mandate of central banks to include the fight against climate change. At the same time, the distributional consequences of QE have led to questions about the responsibility of central banks to address wealth, income and other social inequalities. A mandate beyond narrow inflation targeting in turn raises new questions in terms of the political economy of independent central banks. But are these issues really new?

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