When Sweden’s Riksbank was founded in 1668, followed by the Bank of England in 1694, the motivation was that a single economy should have a single central bank. Over the next three centuries, as the benefits of instituting a monopoly over money creation became more widely recognized, a slew of central banks were established, one for each politically bounded economy.
在1668年瑞典创立中央银行之后，英格兰央行也在1694年成立，其动机是单一经济体应该拥有一个中央银行。在接下来的三个世纪，随着垄断货币创造的好处得到广泛认可，大量的央行被建立起来，每个央行都对应着一个拥有政治界限的经济体。