Abstract:Douglas Holmes traces how inflation targeting, a traditional analytical focus of central banker's regulatory interventions, was enlisted in what he terms "communicative experiments" (p. 1) on the part of central banks, based on more than a decade-long ethnographic engagement with central bankers at the Reserve Bank of New Zealand, the Sveriges Riksbank in Sweden, the Bank of England in the United Kingdom, the Federal Reserve System in the United States, and at the European Central Bank in Frankfurt. These expe… Show more
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