Preface / James K. Galbraith -- Introduction: financial development : the sword of damocles hanging over the process of economic development / Faruk Ülgen -- Financial liberalization, crises and policy implications / Philip Arestis -- Global financing: a bad medicine for developing countries /...

This paper seeks to assess the nature of financial innovations as regards the economic stability throughout an institutional framework within the Schumpeterian tradition. While in the Schumpeterian evolutionary process entrepreneurial innovations are assumed to lead the entire economy towards...