Theories of financial disturbance : an examination of critical theories of finance from Adam Smith to the present day Theories of Financial Disturbance examines how the operations of market driven finance may initiate and transmit disturbances to the economy at large by looking in detail at how various economists envisaged such disturbances occurring pt. 1. A premonition of financial fragility pt. 2. Critical theories of finance in the twentieth century : unstable money and finance pt. 3. Critical theories of finance in the twentieth century : in the shadow of Keynes