This paper provides a critical reading of Janek Wasserman’s The Marginal Revolutionaries: How Austrian Economists Fought the War of Ideas. Wasserman depicts the evolution of the Austrian School from the 1860s until today, a particularly illuminating narrative for the readers of this journal....

After the global financial crisis, the Bank for International Settlements emerged as an influential voice in policy debates. Under the rubric of preventing 'financial imbalances', and concerned with the 'illusory' nature of demand management, the Bank has proposed a macro policy framework based...