Preface to the updated edition -- Introduction -- Unhappy family -- Dashed illusions -- The German question revisited -- Winners and losers -- A dangerous vacuum -- Irreparable errors -- The technocrats stumble -- A bank unlike the others -- The Cyprus cauldron -- Greek tussles, euro sovereignty...

There has been a recent resurgence of interest in debates about the power of business (Culpepper 2011; Bell 2012) and Bell and Hindmoor (2013) make an important, theoretically informed, but empirically rooted, contribution to that debate. In this response, we address both aspects of their...

Ein in gefälligem Stil, fast essayistisch verfasstes Werk eines britischen Publizisten und Ex-Bankers, der offensichtlich ein guter Kenner der deutschen Politik ist. Mit leichter Hand werden die Geschichte der europäischen Wirtschaftspolitik, des Euros und der divergierenden Interessen der am...

This paper argues that whatever the macro- and micro-outcomes of the current economic, financial and regulatory crises, the roles of central banks worldwide are changing fundamentally. These changes will not be uniform, and different models of central banking, especially with regard to strategic...