Stephen Mitford Goodson's Inside the South African Reserve Bank Its Origins and Secrets Exposed sweeps aside the usual dust of economic theory to provide a thoroughly engaging account on the origins and purposes of the Republic's central banking institution. Goodson does so as an "outsider" on the "inside," a proponent of banking reform who became a non-executive director of the SA Reserve Bank. What Goodson found was ineptitude, corruption, careerism, ignorance and scandal. When Goodson became too troublesome for the status quo, he was removed, smeared, and attempts were made to legally...

Pour que toute nation/etat/societe/communaute conserve la pleine souverainete de son independance dans le traitement de ses affaires, le controle absolu des moyens qu'elle emploie pour echanger les biens et les services doit resider au sein des organes qui representent le peuple, et ne doit jamais etre delegue a des individus ou a des groupes d'interets prives. Tout au long de l'histoire connue, les periodes ou l'etat a exerce le controle de l'emission monetaire ont toujours ete synonymes d'ere de prosperite, de paix, d'enrichissement culturel, de plein emploi et d'inflation zero. Par contre,...