countries have adopted the New Consensus Monetary Policy since the early 1990s in an attempt to reduce inflation to low levels … the central bank. The objective of these rules is to achieve specific, or a range of, inflation targets … framework -- 10. The experience of inflation targeting since 1993 -- 11. Reflections on the Bank of Canada's monetary policy …

Over the past fifteen years, a significant number of industrialized and middle-income countries have adopted inflation … targeting as a framework for monetary policymaking. As the name suggests, in such inflation-targeting regimes, the central bank … is responsible for achieving a publicly announced target for the inflation rate. While the objective of controlling …

: America in the 1920s -- 5. The money-haters: experiments in socialism -- 6. Europe between the world wars: a ferment of ideas … -- 7. How Europe’s culture kept money under control (1940s and 1950s) -- 8. New money from the New World -- 9. American … culture and the dollar after World War II -- 10. The century’s hinge (mid 1960s to late 1970s) -- 11. 1980-2000: Creation of a …