Lena Rethel
Lena Rethel is Assistant Professor of International Political Economy at the University of Warwick. Her research focuses on financial system change in Asia, the emergence and challenges of Islamic finance and the relationship of finance, debt and development. Her research has been published in a range of academic journals. Lena has co-edited two collections on the political economy of the subprime crisis that have appeared in New Political Economy and the British Journal of Politics and International Relations and a special issue on global governance in crisis that will appear in Global Society in 2012.
Books by Lena Rethel
Problem With Banks
Lena Rethel, Timothy Sinclair
Banks of all sorts are troubled institutions. The cost of public bail-outs associated with the subprime crisis in the United States alone may be as high as US$2 trillion. What is the problem with banks? Why do they seem to be at the centre of economic and financial turmoil down through the ages? In this provocative and timely book, Sinclair and Rethel seek answers to these questions, arguing that banks suffer from perennial problems, and that developments in the financial markets and government… (more information)