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# Spring/​Summer 2017 

Vol. 37 No. 2 

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Central Banks and Financial Turmoil

##### Articles 

#### [The Long-Run Imperatives of Monetary Policy and Macroprudential Supervision ](/cato-journal/spring/summer-2017/long-run-imperatives-monetary-policy-macroprudential-supervision)

By Thomas Hoenig 

#### [The Impact of Monetary and Regulatory Policy on Main Street Banking ](/cato-journal/spring/summer-2017/impact-monetary-regulatory-policy-main-street-banking)

By [John A. Allison](https://www.cato.org/people/john-allison) 

#### [Monetary Disorder: Move Over, Mandarins ](/cato-journal/spring/summer-2017/monetary-disorder-move-over-mandarins)

By James Grant 

#### [Central Bank Policies and the Debt Trap ](/cato-journal/spring/summer-2017/central-bank-policies-debt-trap)

By Athanasios Orphanides 

#### [Monetary Mischief and the Debt Trap ](/cato-journal/spring/summer-2017/monetary-mischief-debt-trap)

By H. Robert Heller 

#### [Federal Reserve Mischief and the Credit Trap ](/cato-journal/spring/summer-2017/federal-reserve-mischief-credit-trap)

By Daniel L. Thornton 

#### [Rethinking Central Banking ](/cato-journal/spring/summer-2017/rethinking-central-banking)

By Gerald P. O’Driscoll Jr. 

#### [Editor’s Note ](/cato-journal/spring/summer-2017/editors-note)

By [James A. Dorn](https://www.cato.org/people/james-dorn) 

#### [From Excess Stimulus to Monetary Mayhem ](/cato-journal/spring/summer-2017/excess-stimulus-monetary-mayhem)

By [Kevin Dowd](https://www.cato.org/people/kevin-dowd) and Martin Hutchinson 

#### [Liability Insurance, Extended Liability, Branching, and Financial Stability ](/cato-journal/spring/summer-2017/liability-insurance-extended-liability-branching-financial)

By [Tyler Goodspeed](https://www.cato.org/people/tyler-goodspeed) 

#### [Rethinking the Monetary Transmission Mechanism ](/cato-journal/spring/summer-2017/rethinking-monetary-transmission-mechanism)

By [Jerry L. Jordan](https://www.cato.org/people/jerry-jordan) 

#### [Bank Regulation as Monetary Policy: Lessons from the Great Recession ](/cato-journal/spring/summer-2017/bank-regulation-monetary-policy-lessons-great-recession)

By [Steve H. Hanke](https://www.cato.org/people/steve-h-hanke) and Matt Sekerke 

#### [The Fed’s Failed Policies ](/cato-journal/spring/summer-2017/feds-failed-policies)

By [Walker F. Todd](https://www.cato.org/people/walker-f-todd) 

##### Book Reviews 

##### [*The Fractured Republic: Renewing America’s Social Contract in the Age of Individualism* by Yuval Levin](/cato-journal/spring/summer-2017/fractured-republic-renewing-americas-social-contract-age)

By [John Samples](https://www.cato.org/people/john-samples) 

##### [*Clientelism and Economic Policy: Greece and the Crisis* by Aris Trantidis](/cato-journal/spring/summer-2017/clientelism-economic-policy-greece-crisis-aris-trantidis)

By [Dalibor Rohac](https://www.cato.org/people/dalibor-rohac) 

##### [*How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything: Tales from the Pentagon* by Rosa Brooks](/cato-journal/spring/summer-2017/how-everything-became-war-military-became-everything-tales-pentagon)

By [Eric Gomez](https://www.cato.org/people/eric-gomez) 

##### [*Scandinavian Unexceptionalism: Culture, Markets, and the Failure of Third-Way Socialism* by Nima Sanandaji](/cato-journal/spring/summer-2017/scandinavian-unexceptionalism-culture-markets-failure-third-way)

By James Rolph Edwards 

##### [*Global Spencerism: The Communication and Appropriation of a British Evolutionist* Edited by Bernard Lightman](/cato-journal/spring/summer-2017/global-spencerism-communication-appropriation-british-evolutionist)

By [Alberto Mingardi](https://www.cato.org/people/alberto-mingardi) 

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