The end of the dictatorship of the markets?

Summary In these times of financial crisis, the markets are unanimously opposed: they are accused of starving the people and undermining the foundations of democracy by putting the States under tutelage. But the crisis does not explain everything. The markets seem to have abandoned their role as "financiers" of the economy to become virtual casinos (credit derivatives, robot traders programmed by doctors in physics, bonuses and insane risk-taking that can push banks into bankruptcy...). Politicians, entrepreneurs and citizens no longer understand the usefulness of markets. This book takes up this debate. As is often the case in economics, the devil is in the details. Through their in-depth analyses, the contributors of this book remind us that markets remain useful but diagnose their dysfunctions. They deduce from this that there are ways of regulating markets that are supervised and reconciled with society.