TY  - BOOK
AU  - King,Mervyn A.
TI  - The end of alchemy: money, banking and the future of the global economy 
SN  - 9781408706107 (hbk.) :
AV  - HG1586 
U1  - 332.101 KIN 23
PY  - 2016///
CY  - London
PB  - Little, Brown
KW  - Banks and banking
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Financial crises
KW  - Capitalism
KW  - Finance and Accounting
KW  - eflch
KW  - ukslc
N2  - The past twenty years saw unprecedented growth and stability followed by the worst financial crisis the industrialised world has ever witnessed. In the space of little more than a year what had been seen as the age of wisdom was viewed as the age of foolishness. Almost overnight, belief turned into incredulity. Most accounts of the recent crisis focus on the symptoms and not the underlying causes of what went wrong. But those events, vivid though they remain in our memories, comprised only the latest in a long series of financial crises since our present system of commerce became the cornerstone of modern capitalism. In this book, former governor of the Bank of England Mervyn King - an actor in this drama - proposes revolutionary new concepts to answer the central question: are money and banking a form of Alchemy or are they the Achilles heel of a modern capitalist economy?
ER  -