Daniel Maman is the Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Ben Gurion University of the Negev. His main research fields include economic and organisational sociology, and network analysis, and he has published in a number of journals.Zeev Rosenhek is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology, Political Science and Communication at the Open University of Israel. His fields of interest include political economy, state-society relations and institutional change and he has published a number of articles in these areas.

• Introduction 1. The Political Economy of Central Banks 2. The Dynamics of the Israeli Political Economy 3. The Israeli Central Bank in the Developmental State Era 4. The Reconfiguration of the Political-Economic Field 5. Knowledge, Institutional Arrangements and Policy 6. Struggling for Preeminence. Conclusions: Politics of Depoliticization

Daniel Maman is the Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Ben Gurion University of the Negev. His main research fields include economic and organisational sociology, and network analysis, and he has published in a number of journals.Zeev Rosenhek is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology, Political Science and Communication at the Open University of Israel. His fields of interest include political economy, state-society relations and institutional change and he has published a number of articles in these areas.

• Introduction 1. The Political Economy of Central Banks 2. The Dynamics of the Israeli Political Economy 3. The Israeli Central Bank in the Developmental State Era 4. The Reconfiguration of the Political-Economic Field 5. Knowledge, Institutional Arrangements and Policy 6. Struggling for Preeminence. Conclusions: Politics of Depoliticization

Daniel Maman is the Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Ben Gurion University of the Negev. His main research fields include economic and organisational sociology, and network analysis, and he has published in a number of journals.Zeev Rosenhek is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology, Political Science and Communication at the Open University of Israel. His fields of interest include political economy, state-society relations and institutional change and he has published a number of articles in these areas.

• Introduction 1. The Political Economy of Central Banks 2. The Dynamics of the Israeli Political Economy 3. The Israeli Central Bank in the Developmental State Era 4. The Reconfiguration of the Political-Economic Field 5. Knowledge, Institutional Arrangements and Policy 6. Struggling for Preeminence. Conclusions: Politics of Depoliticization