Goodhart: Evolution of Central Banking RG1

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Reading course [bit.ly:/az2cb] to go through Charles Goodhart book on Evolution of Central Banking. This first video discusses free market theories opposed to central banking. It then describes how Central Banks originated to fund wars, and evolved to have broader functions. This history contradicts free market ideological concepts of government interfering with free markets. Rather, ...

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