Keeping prices roughly constant was a very different mission from the historical role of central banks. In the original vision of central banking, price stability was not at all an obvious purpose, since the value of money was cast in terms of specific weights of precious metals.
在这两个例子中，央行看上去似乎采取的不是一些传统的货币政策。在过去30年里，达成了一项显著的共识，即央行的主要责任，如果不是唯一责任的话，是维持价格稳定。自上个世纪90年代以来，根据通胀目标更加确切地定义价格稳定日益盛行。