1st Edition

The Israeli Central Bank Political Economy, Global Logics and Local Actors

By Daniel Maman, Zeev Rosenhek Copyright 2011
192 Pages
by Routledge

204 Pages
by Routledge

192 Pages
by Routledge

This book examines the local and global political and institutional processes that have led to the strengthening of the Israeli central bank within the context of the now predominant neoliberal regime. Using Israel as a case study to identify broader patterns around the world, the authors examine the strengthening of central banks as a key dimension of the institutionalisation of the global... Read more

Introduction  1. The Political Economy of Central Banks  2. The Dynamics of the Israeli Political Economy  3. The Israeli Central Bank in the Developmental State Era  4. The Reconfiguration of the Political-Economic Field  5. Knowledge, Institutional Arrangements and Policy  6. Struggling for Preeminence.  Conclusions: Politics of Depoliticization

Biography

Daniel Maman is the Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Ben Gurion University of the Negev. His main research fields include economic and organisational sociology, and network analysis, and he has published in a number of journals.

Zeev Rosenhek is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology, Political Science and Communication at the Open University of Israel. His fields of interest include political economy, state-society relations and institutional change and he has published a number of articles in these areas.