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- Argues that the 2007/08 financial crisis revealed fundamental flaws in how the financial sector had evolved over the previous three decades
- Suggests that the largely deregulated financial sector needs to be radically reformed
- Questions the huge rise in financial sector activity over the last thirty years and its resultant effects on society
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Table of contents (5 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This book argues that the 2007/08 financial crisis revealed fundamental flaws in how the financial sector had evolved over the previous three decades. While access to financial services has improved, the total stock of debt in the global economy has risen to more than twice the size of global GDP. Financial services now play a far bigger role in all economies, developed and developing, than in the 1960s. This development has produced few, if any, worthwhile benefits. The book concludes that the largely deregulated financial sector needs to be radically reformed.
The first of these reforms would be to establish the pre-eminence of the public interest in how financial services operate. The second would involve breaking up financial institutions that have become much too big. Third, the phenomenon of financialization needs to be regulated and controlled. Finally, all countries need to work- both nationally and internationally- towards a more democratized, more robust, and less laissez faire system of socially progressive financial sector regulation to make it subservient to the needs of society rather than the other way round.
This Palgrave Pivot will be of interest to economists, financiers and banking specialists, interested in an informed debate on the causes and consequences of the 2007/2008 financial crisis.
Authors and Affiliations
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UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, Bangkok, Thailand
Shahid Ahmed
About the author
Shahid Ahmed read Economics at Cambridge University, UK, before joining the State Bank of Pakistan. He subsequently worked in international and development banking in London, Abu Dhabi and Dubai between 1976 and 1996. He served with the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific in Bangkok. He is the author of Rentier Capitalism: Disorganised Development and Social Injustice in Pakistan (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Ruling or Serving Society?
Book Subtitle: The Case for Reforming Financial Services
Authors: Shahid Ahmed
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00521-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-00520-7Published: 12 October 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-13120-3Published: 10 December 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-00521-4Published: 01 October 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 110
Topics: Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics, Financial Services