TY - GEN AU - Kaufman,Henry TI - The road to financial reformation: warnings, consequences, reforms / (E-BOOK) SN - 978-0-470-53212-6 U1 - 332 PY - 2009/// CY - Hoboken, N.J. PB - John Wiley & Sons KW - Finance KW - Government policy KW - International finance KW - E-BOOK N1 - Past blunders and future choices -- Reflections on business, the lessons of history, and globalization -- If Adam Smith were alive today -- Troubling trends in financial markets and official policies -- Debt : the threat to economic and financial stability -- The decapitalization of American corporations -- Shortcomings in financial oversight -- From financial segmentation to concentration -- Financial concentration in economic thought -- Do we still need Glass-Steagall? -- Banking and commerce should not merge -- Postwar financial crises, 1966-2001 -- The great financial crisis of 2007-2009 -- Public policy and the markets -- The perils of monetary gradualism -- The Fed and the governance of financial institutions -- Transparency and the Fed -- Prospects for interest rates -- The financial consequences of the credit crisis ER -