A survey of past financial crises, starting with the great banking collapses of the interwar period. The current turmoil has prompted a number of questions regarding both its origins and ways to avoid its repetition. The historical background and the evolving institutional framework of banking...

Chapter 1 Price Disequilibrium Theory -- Chapter 2 International Grid of Capital Flows: Innovation, Crisis, and Off-shore Banking -- Chapter 3 Dynamics of Government Fiscal Instability -- Chapter 4 Public and Private Debt Markets in Disequilibrium Theory -- Chapter 5 Why ‘Austerity’ Failed...

An account of the principal phases in the development of the English banking system, and an analysis of the financial structure of the economy of the UK. The book focuses in detail on the regulatory and supervisory aspects of the UK banking system, and the interactions between the structural...

Preface -- Chapter 1 Reality and Theory -- Chapter 2 Empirically-Grounded Theory -- Chapter 3 Bankground: Banking and Causality -- Chapter 4 Dynamics of Bank Panics -- Chapter 5 Control in an Economic System -- Chapter 6 Great Depression -- Chapter 7 Topological Economic Theory -- Chapter 8...