Now there is no part of our economic system which works so badly as our monetary and credit arrangements; none where the results of bad working are so disastrous socially; and none where it is easier to propose a scientific solution. (J. M. Keynes: Speech to the Liberal Party, December 1923, The...

Contents: Introduction -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Monetary regimes, then and now / Charles Goodhart -- 2. Keynes applied / Geoff Tily -- 3. Rethinking monetary restraint / Roy Rotheim -- 4. The evolutionary approach to banking and the credit-hungry consumer: a view of the failure of African Bank...