Reflections on the Asian and sub-prime crises / Charles Adams -- Putting the politics back in : financial crises in comparative perspective / Mark Beeson -- Social origins of financial crises / Kurtulus Gemici -- The legal framework and its efficacy / Stanley Siegel -- Regulatory framework : the winning/losing architecture / Lan Luh Luh and Hans Tjio -- Role of International Monetary Fund, World Bank and Asian Development Bbank in tackling financial crises in Asia / Sanja Samirana Pattnayak and Alka Chadha -- Islamic banking : what can we learn? / Tarek Coury -- How the media shapes perceptions and fuels psychology in financial crises / Thomas Oberlechner -- Conclusion / Divya Sunder Ramchand.