The Problem with Banks

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About the Authors; Glossary; Preface; 1 Banks in Crisis Time and Time Again; Regulating Banks; table 1.1 The world's 1,000 biggest banks by region of origin, 1990-2010; The Argument; table 1.2 A typology of rules; figure 1.1 Bank regulation and practice; 2 Banking is a Confidence Game; Contradictions; Social Foundations; States, Rules and Crisis; figure 2.1 International capital mobility and episodes of banking crisis 1800-2008; Conclusion; 3 Disintermediation and Financial Innovation; Sources and Signs of Change; Rise of the Capital Markets

figure 3.1a Emerging Asia domestic financing patterns 2001figure 3.1b Emerging Asia domestic financing patterns 2010; Extreme Financial Innovation and Uncertainty; What Are Banks Today?; Conclusion; 4 Self-Regulation and Risk-Taking; The Move to Self-Regulation; Self-Regulation: Global and Domestic Interactions; The Self-Regulation Risk-Taking Nexus; Conclusion; 5 Problems with Reform Proposals; figure 5.1 Reform proposals in perspective; The Problem with Banning Proprietary Trading; The Problem with Breaking Up the Banks; The Problem with Macroprudential Policies; Conclusion

Conclusion: What is to be Done about Banks?Banks Have Changed beyond Recognition; We Are Responsible for What Banks Do; Banks Can Work for Us; Conclusion; References; Index; About Zed Books;

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