The rise of a crisis-prone banking sector and its political power has received significant attention following the most recent financial crisis. The crisis sparked a growing interest in understanding how and why we have created a world of large, unstable banks. Excessive banking activity arose...

With the same powerful evidence and range of reference as his global bestseller "Capital In The Twenty-First Century", this sets out Thomas Piketty's analysis of the financial crisis, what has happened since and where we should go from here.