'Central Banking as Global Governance is a masterly, path-breaking book. Rodney Bruce Hall's command of this complex material is impressive, even awe-inspiring. Most remarkable about the book is his ability to show how so many disparate social facts, practices, and organizations hang together to constitute the social underpinnings of contemporary financial markets. The practices of capital – of holders of capital, central banks, finance ministries, and rating agencies – are premised on shared meanings that, once institutionalized, are parametric. Hall's book brilliantly explains those parameters and how they have evolved.' Rawi Abdelal, Harvard Business School
1. Central banking as governance; 2. The social character of money; 3. Instituting facts and constituting rules; 4. Constitutive power relations; 5. Rules and international monetary systems; 6. Central bank independence as credibility; 7. Transparency and intersubjectivity in central banking.