Introduction : providing a different narrative: the 2008 financial crisis and the UK financial market / Abdul Karim Aldohni -- Law, creditors and crises : the untold story of debt / TT Arvind -- Peer-to-peer lending and financial innovation in the UK / David Bholat and Ulrich Atz -- High cost...

Part 1. Theory. Methodological framing -- The role of law in markets -- Part 2. Crises. History and deregulation -- The crisis of 2008 -- Part 3. Futures. Responses to the credit crunch -- The market-state balance revisted

"The authors of this book argue that post-war fiscal and monetary policies in the U.S. are prone to more frequent and more destabilizing domestic and international financial crises. So, in the aftermath of the one that erupted in 2008, they propose that now we are sleepwalking into another,...