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Intellectual and political ground shifting for central banks everywhere

Published: 2 May 2017

Priests of Prosperity is an analytical study of the evolution of central banking in postcommunist countries, exploring the unsung revolutionary campaign to move from command-economy cash cows into Western-style monetary guardians. This book argues that a powerful transnational central banking community concentrated in Western Europe and North America integrated postcommunist bankers to shape their ideas about the role of central banks and to help them develop modern tools of banking.

Op-ed by Juliet Johnson, professor of political science at McGill University. 

Read more: The Hill Times

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