Central Banking, Monetary Policy and Social Responsibility

The Elgar Series on Central Banking and Monetary Policy

Edited by Guillaume Vallet, Associate Professor, Université Grenoble Alpes and Research Fellow, Centre de Recherche en Economie de Grenoble (CREG), France, Sylvio Kappes, Assistant Professor, Federal University of Ceará, Brazil and Coordinator, Keynesian Economics Working Group, Young Scholars Initiative and Louis-Philippe Rochon, Full Professor, Laurentian University, Canada, Editor-in-Chief, Review of Political Economy and Founding Editor Emeritus, Review of Keynesian Economics

Part of The Elgar Series on Central Banking and Monetary Policy, this book explores the relationship between central banking, monetary policy and the economy at large. It focuses on the specific relationship between central banking, monetary policy and social responsibility as central banks wake up to new realities

‘For the first time in decades, the very purpose of central banking is being debated again, and this time round not only by economists. Reflecting the debate’s breadth, this book will be useful for anyone who wants to form their own views before events drive the answers.’
美国哈佛大学肯尼迪学院——保罗•塔克(Paul Tucker)作者Unelected Power and former central banker

‘This book, a new look at central banks, could not be more timely. The Great Financial Crisis of 2007-2009 and the global Covid pandemic have been among the greatest economic and social challenges to hit the world's economies since the Second World War. As if these were not enough, the global climate crisis (along with the threat of nuclear annihilation) is the worst existential threat society has faced, perhaps in millennia. Central Banks, as one of the most powerful macroeconomic institutions in most countries, have been thrust into the position of needing to help ameliorate these unprecedented problems, and for most, these present dilemmas far beyond traditional trade-offs between inflation and unemployment. How are central banks dealing with these new, highly consequential issues? How should they deal with them? In this book, a refreshing variety of authors – some seasoned, some relatively new, and as a group coming from a range of backgrounds and places – take a number of fresh, thoughtful and thought-provoking looks at contemporary central banks as they grapple with these problems. All students of central banking, and anyone concerned about these major problems, will find something important and valuable in these pages. They can bank on it.’
– Gerald Epstein, University of Massachusetts Amherst, US

‘Central banks are institutions that wield extraordinary power on the economy, whose independence from political pressures has been lauded by professional economists for decades. Yet, the forceful responses by central banks during the Covid-19 and the Global Financial Crisis, have also raised the discomfort with such unelected powerful economics institutions. Central Banking, Monetary Policy and Social Responsibility reveals how professional economists are revisiting their previously held belief, how central banks themselves are coping, and perhaps ought to be coping with this issue. In it, economists and former central bankers are forced to bare their soul and expose their true values. A must read.’
– Nadine Baudot-Trajtenberg, Former Deputy Governor of the Bank of Israel and Reichman University, Israel