The casino image gone mad -- Innovations -- Political underpinnings : the US-Japan axis -- Political underpinnings : disunited Europe -- Wall Street and other casinos -- The debtors -- Finance and crime -- Managing mad money : national systems -- Our international guardians -- So what?

art I: The benefits of free financial markets -- Does finance benefit only the rich? -- Shylock transformed -- The financial revolution and individual economic freedom -- The dark side of finance -- The bottom line on financial development -- Part II: When do financial markets emerge? -- The...