Between debt and the devil
Subtitle: money, credit, and fixing global finance
By: Adair Turner ; with a new afterword by the author
Edition: First paperback edition.
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 314
ISBN-13: 9780691175980
Subjects: Financial institutions; Credit; Monetary policy; International finance; Financial crises; Finance; Economic policy
Notes: Originally published: 2016. With a new afterword.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Part I. Swollen finance; title: Part II. Dangerous debt; title: Part III. Debt, development, and capital flows; title: Part IV. Fixing the system; title: Part V. Excaping the debt overhang.; title: 1. The Utopia of finance for all; title: 2. Inefficient financial markets; title: 3. Debt, banks, and the money they create; title: 4. Too much of the wrong sort of debt; title: 5. Caught in the debt overhang trap; title: 6. Liberalization, innovation, and the credit cycle on steroids; title: 7. Speculation, inequality, and unnecessary credit; title: 8. Debt and development: the merits and dangers of financial repression; title: 9. Too much of the wrong sort of capital flow: global and eurozone delusions; title: 10. Irrelevant bankers in an unstable system; title: 11. Fixing fundamentals; title: 12. Abolishing banks, taxing debt pollution, and encouraging equity; title: 13. Managing the quantity and mix of debt; title: 14. Monetary finance; title: breaking the taboo; title: 15. Between debt and the devil; title: a choice of dangers; title: Epilogue: the queen's question and the fatal conceit.