TY - BOOK AU - Kroszner,Randy AU - Shiller,Robert J. AU - Friedman,Benjamin M. ED - Alvin Hansen Symposium on Public Policy ED - Alvin Hansen Symposium on Public Policy ED - Alvin Hansen Symposium on Public Policy TI - Reforming U.S. financial markets: reflections before and beyond Dodd-Frank T2 - Alvin Hansen Symposium Series on Public Policy SN - 9780262015455 AV - HG 181 R332 2011 U1 - 332.0973 22 PY - 2011/// CY - Cambridge, Mass. PB - MIT Press KW - Finanzas KW - Estados Unidos KW - Crisis financiera KW - Economía Política KW - ECONOMICS/Finance N1 - Papers and discussions presented at the fifth Alvin Hansen Symposium on Public Policy, held at Harvard University on April 30, 2009; Includes bibliographical references and index; Cover ; Contents; Introduction; 1 Democratizing and Humanizing Finance; 2 Making Markets More Robust; 3 Comments; 4 Responses; 5 Rejoinder; Contributors; Index N2 - "Over the last few years, the financial sector has experienced its worst crisis since the 1930s. The collapse of major firms, the decline in asset values, the interruption of credit flows, the loss of confidence in firms and credit market instruments, the intervention by governments and central banks: all were extraordinary in scale and scope. In this book, leading economists Randall Kroszner and Robert Shiller discuss what the United States should do to prevent another such financial meltdown. Their discussion goes beyond the nuts and bolts of legislative and regulatory fixes to consider fundamental changes in our financial arrangements. Kroszner and Shiller offer two distinctive approaches to financial reform, with Kroszner providing a systematic analysis of regulatory gaps and Shiller addressing the broader concerns of democratizing and humanizing finance. After brief discussions by four commentators Benjamin M. Friedman, George G. Kaufman, Robert C. Pozen, and Hal S. Scott), Kroszner and Shiller each offer a response to the other's proposals, creating a fruitful dialogue between two major figures in the field"--Publisher's description ER -