Ruling or Serving Society : The Case for Reforming Financial Services.

Intro; Preface; Acknowledgements; Contents; Chapter 1 Introduction; Abstract; Historical Evolution of Financial Services; Financialization; Financial Services in Developing Countries; Some General Observations; References; Chapter 2 Money, the Real Economy and Financial Services; Abstract; Historical Background; Monetary Economics in Practice: Extracting the Surplus; The Price Level and Inflation; Money and the Process of Growth; The Neoliberal Revival in the 1980s and Its Aftermath; Financialization Marches on; Financial Services and the Securities Markets; Implications for Policy

Chapter 5 The Future: Making Financial Services Subservient to the Needs of SocietyAbstract; Background and Overview; Neoliberalism and Finance; Financialization: A Major Challenge; Where Do We Go from Here?; Conclusions; References; Bibliography; Index