Mad Money : With an Introduction by Benjamin J. Cohen.

Cover -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Table of contents -- Introduction to the new edition of Mad money Benjamin J. Cohen, University of California -- Acknowledgments -- List of abbreviations -- 1 The casino image gone mad -- Globalisation -- Themes of Casino Capitalism -- And key decisions of the last decade? -- So what's new? What's dangerous? -- Some (conflicting) interpretations -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 2 Innovations -- The nature of innovation -- Derivatives -- Leveraged buyouts and junk bonds -- Concluding comments -- Notes -- 3 Political underpinnings: the US-Japan axis -- A tale of two deficits -- Remember the 1930s: politics mattered then too -- Notes -- 4 Political underpinnings: disunited Europe -- The EMU plan -- Euros, dollars and yen -- Notes -- 5 Wall Street and other casinos -- The case for optimism -- The case for pessimism -- What has changed? -- Notes -- 6 The debtors -- The Mexican story -- The contagion question -- The Asian scene -- What to do with the poorest debtors? -- Central and eastern Europe -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 7 Finance and crime -- States and markets in money-laundering business -- Conclusions -- Notes -- 8 Managing mad money - national systems -- Financial regulation in the United States -- Japanese dirigisme -- The French system -- Regulation in Germany -- British eccentricity -- Notes -- 9 Our international guardians -- The central bankers' bank -- The IMF - how many lifeboats? -- Other international bodies -- Ideas from the experts? -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 10 So what? -- Some scenarios -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

The follow-up to Casino capitalism, this is another classic text, and the last book written by Susan Strange. It builds on the previous work, discussing the weak points of a financial system driven by volatile markets rather than by governments.

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