Priests of Prosperity: How Central Bankers Transformed the Postcommunist World
Juliet Johnson
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Hardback. Series: Cornell Studies in Money. Num Pages: 272 pages, 15 tables, 3 charts, 1 figures. BIC Classification: JPA; JPS; KFFK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Priests of Prosperity explores the unsung revolutionary campaign to transform postcommunist central banks from command-economy cash cows into Western-style monetary guardians. Juliet Johnson conducted more than 160 interviews in seventeen countries with central bankers, international assistance providers, policymakers, and private-sector finance professionals over the course of fifteen years. She argues that a powerful transnational central banking community concentrated in Western Europe and North America integrated postcommunist central bankers into its network, shaped their ideas about the role of central banks, and helped them develop modern tools of central banking. Johnson's detailed comparative studies of central bank ... Read more
Priests of Prosperity explores the unsung revolutionary campaign to transform postcommunist central banks from command-economy cash cows into Western-style monetary guardians. Juliet Johnson conducted more than 160 interviews in seventeen countries with central bankers, international assistance providers, policymakers, and private-sector finance professionals over the course of fifteen years. She argues that a powerful transnational central banking community concentrated in Western Europe and North America integrated postcommunist central bankers into its network, shaped their ideas about the role of central banks, and helped them develop modern tools of central banking. Johnson's detailed comparative studies of central bank ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Series
Cornell Studies in Money
Condition
New
Weight
563g
Number of Pages
312
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9781501700224
SKU
V9781501700224
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99-1
About Juliet Johnson
Juliet Johnson is Professor of Political Science at McGill University. She is the author of Priests of Prosperity, also from Cornell, and former editor of the Review of International Political Economy (2007-2014).
Reviews for Priests of Prosperity: How Central Bankers Transformed the Postcommunist World
The work of a mature scholar whose voice is distinctive and compelling, Priests of Prosperity is elegantly and persuasively written. The contributions of this book to comparative and international political economy are substantive and theoretical, and the primary research that informs Juliet Johnson's analysis is impressive and astonishingly thorough. Johnson's argument that a transnational community of central bankers exerted significant, ... Read more