"Adair Turner became chairman of Britain's Financial Services Authority just as the global financial crisis struck in 2008, and he played a leading role in redesigning global financial regulation. In this eye-opening book, he sets the record straight about what really caused the crisis. It...

Intro -- The Lionel Robbins Lectures -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- 1 Economic Growth, Human Welfare, and Inequality -- 1.1 Empirical Evidence: Contesting Claims -- 1.2 Explanations for the Disconnection between Average Income and Happiness -- 1.3 Distributive and Creative Activities...