This special issue argues that to make sense of the increased prominence of central banks
after the 2008 financial crisis and COVID-19 pandemic requires interrogating the sources of …

A bold history of the rise of central banks, showing how institutions designed to steady the
ship of global finance have instead become as destabilizing as they are dominant. While …

Since the early days of the European economic and monetary integration, European
institutions have faced policy challenges requiring an assessment of the economic …

Why do policymakers and economists within a policymaking institution choose to throw
away a model and to develop an alternative one? Why do they choose to stick to an existing …

Developments over the past decade have made it increasingly difficult for central banks to
achieve their macroeconomic objectives without the help of fiscal policy, resulting in some …

Anyone who has studied macroeconomics will be aware that the field changed dramatically
in the 1970s. These changes are usually associated with the introduction of models based …

This article investigates the scientization process in central banks, using the Bank of
England (BoE) as a case study. It proposes an ideal type of the scientized central bank …

The 2023 HOPE conference aimed to understand the interrelationships between the Second
World War and economics. Examining this back-and-forth means examining the …

This article introduces a new conceptual framework for examining the transformation of
central banks' activities at the intersection of science and politics. The article relies on the …

Who influenced whom during the 2008 crisis? Did academic economists shape central
bankers' attitudes towards fiscal policy, or did central bankers impose their agenda? In an …