TY - BOOK AU - Barth,James R. AU - Caprio,Gerard AU - Levine,Ross TI - Guardians of finance: making regulators work for us SN - 9780262017398 (hbk. : alk. paper) AV - HB3722 .B374 2012 U1 - 332.0973 23 PY - 2012/// CY - Cambridge, Mass. PB - MIT Press KW - Financial crises KW - Prevention KW - Finance KW - Government policy KW - Financial institutions KW - Banks and banking KW - Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009 N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction -- Regulating finance is hard to do -- Incentives run amok -- How U.S. regulators encouraged the financial crisis -- American crisis? Ain't necessarily so -- Been down this road many times before -- More of the same: post 2007-2009 financial crisis regulation -- Making the guardians of finance work for us ER -