Abstract
The aim of this article is to examine the level of power enjoyed nowadays by central banks. In a first section I go through the different sources of this power, analyzing their evolution during the first decade following the 2008 global financial crisis. A second section assesses the pros and cons of this new status. Finally, I conclude by offering a political economic account of the overall desirability underpinning the choice of having extremely powerful central banks, a pattern that has been reaffirmed in the 2020 global COVID crisis.
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