Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- List of Contributors -- Prologue -- 1 The Turmoil in the Financial Services System -- SECTION I Understanding Why: The Need for New Perspectives -- 2 What is the Financial Services System? -- 3 A Dynamic Systems Modelling Perspective -- 4 From the Efficient Market Hypothesis to Econophysics -- SECTION II Understanding What: Making Sense of Unpredictable Events and Developments -- 5 The 2007 Liquidity Crisis: An Example of Scalability Dynamics in Action -- 6 Taming Manias: On the Origins, Inevitability, Prediction and Regulation of Bubbles and Crashes -- 7 Using Power Laws and the Hurst Exponent to Identify Stock Market Trading Bubbles -- SECTION III Understanding How: Turning Financial Services Systems into Resilient Systems -- 8 Balancing Different Modes of Uncertainty Management in the Financial Services Industry -- 9 Financial Resilience Engineering: Toward Automatic Action Formulas against Risk and Reckless Endangerment -- 10 The Ability to Regulate, Govern and Control Financial Services Systems -- Epilogue: Financial Markets and the Law of Requisite Variety -- References -- Index.