The two stabilities: Friends, good friends, or inseparable?

Throughout his long and distinguished career, David Mayes was concerned with a wide range of subjects. This paper focuses on three of them: on monetary and financial history, on monetary stability, and on financial stability. We use the first of these to open up exploration of the second and third. A relationship is often asserted between monetary and financial stability, but how close and how durable is it? Is it one that holds through a long...