What are the links between things as diverse as the prices of pork bellies, interest rates, and corporate stock? They are all being translated into risk and priced through the system of derivative markets. Financial derivatives are now the largest form of financial transaction in the world, and...

Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Setting the scene -- The professionalization of Australasian economics -- The practical utopia of economics -- Ordeal by fire : Australasian economists and the great depression -- How Keynes came to Australasia -- War, reconstruction and economic theory -- A...