Will Roberds and Steve Quinn on the Original Central Bank: the Bank of Amsterdam

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  Welcome to Macro Musings,

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  where each week we pull back the curtain and take a closer look at the most important macroeconomic issues of the past,

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  present, and future.

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  I am your host, David Beckworth,

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  a senior research fellow with the Mercatus Center at George Mason University,

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  and I'm glad you decided to join us.

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  Our guests today are Steve Quinn and Will Roberts.

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  Steve is a full professor of economics at Texas Christian University,

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  and Will is an economist emeritus of the research department of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta.

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  Steve and Will join us today to discuss their recent and riveting book titled,

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  How a Ledger Became a Central Bank, a Monetary History of the Bank of Amsterdam.

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  Steve and Will, welcome to the program.

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  Thank you.

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  Thank you.

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  Delighted to be here.

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  Well, it's great to have you on.

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  And when I say riveting, I mean it.

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  Now, the title might lead one to think ledger, central bank.

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  It's almost an accounting sign in textbook.

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  But it's a really interesting history of how the bank of Amsterdam emerged and became an important central bank in early history.

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