"This book is about economic and financial market cycles and the factors that affect them. The motivation for writing it has been my longstanding fascination with how repeated patterns of behaviour and market cycles seem to exist despite the enormous changes that have occurred in economies,...

"Adair Turner became chairman of Britain's Financial Services Authority just as the global financial crisis struck in 2008, and he played a leading role in redesigning global financial regulation. In this eye-opening book, he sets the record straight about what really caused the crisis. It...