Regulatory Failure and the Global Financial Crisis

An Australian Perspective

Edited by Mohamed Ariff, Chair of Economics and Finance, Sunway University, Malaysia, John H. Farrar, Emeritus Professor of Law, Bond University, Australia and Professor of Corporate Governance, University of Auckland, New Zealand and Ahmed M. Khalid, Professor of Economics, School of Business and Economics, University of Brunei Darussalam

This fascinating book presents a lively discussion of key issues resulting from the recent financial crisis. The expert contributors explore why the global financial crisis occurred, how it destroyed wealth, triggered mass unemployment and created an unprecedented loss of control on employment, monetary policy and government budgets.