TY - BOOK AU - Kaul,Vivek TI - Easy Money : the greatest Ponzi scheme ever and how it is set to destroy the global financial system SN - 978-81-321-1344-7 U1 - 330.9/Kau PY - 2015/// CY - New Delhi PB - Sage Response KW - Global financial crisis N1 - Table of Contents : Foreword Satyajit Das Introduction Why Robinson Crusoe did Not Need Money Gold is Useful Because it is Useless The Merchant of Venice The Bank of England The Other Life of Isaac Newton Paper Money during the Revolutions How Bank of England Became a Central Bank When the "Cooke" Crumbled The Gold Rush The Creature from Jekyll Island Between the Wars Conclusion N2 - "A man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest", wrote singer and songwriter Paul Simon some decades back. Books on the current financial crisis which started in late 2008 are a tad like that. Until now they have tended to deal with certain aspects of the crisis without looking at the bigger picture of what really went wrong. That bigger picture of the ongoing financial crisis has now started to evolve. Easy Money hopes to capture this big picture. The history of money and the financial system as it has evolved over the centuries stand at the heart of this endeavor. It explores the idea that the evolution of money over centuries has led to an easy money policy being followed by governments and central banks across the world, which in turn has fueled humongous Ponzi schemes, which have now started to unravel, bringing the whole world on the brink of a financial disaster. The book also explains how the lessons of the financial crisis have still not been learned and in trying to deal with it, governments across the world are making the same mistakes which led to the current crisis in the first place ER -