The philosophy, politics and economics of finance in the 21st century : from hubris to disgrace

1. Introduction : the nadir of 2008 and its aftermath / Patrick O'Sullivan -- 2. Asset management : some considerations on performance / Philippe Dupuy -- 3. Risk in the age of crises / Francois Desmoulins-Lebeault -- 4. Financialisation / Marcus Davison -- 5. Is Islamic finance a complement to conventional Western finance? Underlying principles and viability / Khaled Soufani, Othman Cole, and Patrick O'Sullivan -- 6. "We're still dancing" : stakeholder expectation and its role in decision making in the financial sector / Mark Thomas -- 7. The impact of the subprime financial crisis on the Eastern European transition economies, and why Poland is an outlier / Nigel F.B. Allington and Daniyal Labib -- 8. China as cause and victim of the US subprime crisis : the crisis and its impact on China and the Asian economies / Nigel F.B. Allington and John S.L. McCombie -- 9. Default invariance : a naive category theory of law and finance / Joseph Tanega -- 10. Europe needs the liberal Keynes / Alojzy Z. Nowak and Kazimierz Ryc -- 11. Neologism as theoretical innovation in economics : the case of "financialisation" / Jan Toporowski -- 12. Ethics : from negative regulations to fidelity to the event / Vassili Joannides and John McKernan -- 13. The bank, its societal functions and its practices : conflictual relationships between an economic agent and democracy / Sandrine Ansart and Virginie Monvoisin -- 14. The sufficiency economy : a Thai response to financial excesses / Patrick O'Sullivan and Nick Pisalyaput -- 15. Ethics should not cloud business or financial decisions : the enduring power of the neoclassical paradigm / David Bevan -- 16. Regulation and fraud : a critical assessment of accounting information, corporate governance and complex systems of business control / Andrea Cilloni and Marco A. Marinoni -- 17. The psychology of unethical behaviour in the finance industry / Marko Pitesa -- 18. Financial liberalism and new institutional environment : the 2007-08 financial crisis as a (de)regulatory deadlock / Faruk Ulgen -- 19. Naturalising techniques and naturalised discourses : thoughts on the media's role in the Great Recession / Stephane Jaumier and Antoine Machut -- 20. The all-encompassing hijack / Patrick O'Sullivan and Karim Benameur -- 21. Heated debates and cool analysis : thinking well about financial ethics / Christopher J. Cowton and Yvonne Downs -- 22. Developing country perspectives : a look at the Nigerian banking sector crisis / Kemi Ogunyemi -- 23. Theological and historical perspectives on contemporary accounting / Pieter Buys -- 24. Whither finance now? / Patrick O'Sullivan and Mark Esposito.