The Evolution of Central Banks employs a wide range of historical evidence and reassesses current monetary analysis to argue that the development of non-profit-

This book is the first complete survey of the evolution of monetary institutions and practices in Western countries from the Middle Ages to today. It radically

This book discusses the role of central banks and draws lessons from examining their evolution over the past two centuries.

Curzio had one of the most fertile and original minds ever to be deployed on questions relating, first, to the interactions between Central Banks, private secto

This 2005 treatment compares the central banks of Britain and the United States.