For details of the Bank of England, including its role in promoting financial stability, see the Bank’s website www.bankofengland.co.uk . For more on the stability or instability of financial markets, see Colin Mayer ‘The assessment: financial instability’ Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 1999. For information about money within the euro area, see the website of the European Central Bank www.ecb.int , which reports monthly on its assessment of the EMU area. The Journal of Economic Perspectives Spring 1997 not only contains Ben Bernanke and Frederick Mishkin,’ Inflation targeting: a new framework for monetary policy,’ but also an article’What central bankers can learn from academics - and vice versa’ by distinguished Princeton University professor Alan Blinder, who, for a time in the 1990s, was the deputy Chairman of the central bank of the United States.