Theories of Financial Disturbance examines how the operations of market-driven finance may initiate and transmit disturbances to the economy at large, by looking in detail at how various economists envisaged such disturbances occurring. Contents: Introduction Part I: A Premonition of Financial Fragility 1. Adam Smith#s Economic Case Against Usury 2. The Vindication of Finance Part II: Critical Theories of Finance in the Twentieth Century: Unstable Money and Finance 3. Thorstein Veblen and Those #Captains of Finance# 4. Rosa Luxemburg and the Marxist Subordination of Finance 5. Ralph Hawtrey and the Monetary Business Cycle 6. Irving Fisher and Debt Deflation 7. John Maynard Keynes#s Financial Theory of Under-Investment I: Towards Doubt 8. John Maynard Keynes#s Financial Theory of Under-Investment II: Towards Uncertainty Part III: Critical Theories of Finance in the Twentieth Century: In the Shadow of Keynes 9. The Principle of Increasing Risk I: Marek Breit 10. The Principle of Increasing Risk II: Michal Kalecki 11. The Principle of Increasing Risk III: Michal Kalecki and Josef Steindl on Profits and Finance 12. A Brief Digression on Later Developments in Economics and Finance 13. The East Coast Historians: John Kenneth Galbraith, Charles P. Kindleberger and Robert Shiller 14. Hyman P. Minsky#s Financial Instability Hypothesis 15. Conclusion: The Disturbance of Economists by Finance Bibliography Index