Forty-three international academics, researchers, and finance professionals contribute 43 chapters exploring alternative theory relating to finance. Several chapters examine topics generally
discussed uncritically in standard finance textbooks and discussions: exchange rates, options pricing, risk, hedge funds, securitization, transnational companies, central banks, microfinance,
finance in developing countries, financial crises, money, globalization, emerging markets, international banking, and bank regulation. Additional chapters address topics of increasing
importance but largely ignored in standard considerations of finance, such as limited ability, finance methodology, cooperative banking, Islamic banking, financial Keynesianism, flow of funds,
bad banks, liquidity, credit cycles, the Icelandic crisis, capital controls, tax havens, the Asian monetary union, and financial fragility. Four chapters focus on financial theorists Keynes,
Marx, Veblen, and Minsky. The book is aimed at academics, researchers, and students in economics, finance, and heterodox economics. Annotation ©2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
