Market Functionality and Institutional Reforms

This presentation will examine market functionality in relation to the reform of institutions and key national and international institutional organizations. With reference to the causes of the current, now global, financial and credit crisis, I shall attempt to explore the need for reform of the role of the state and of some international institutional organizations, making the economic system less vulnerable to crises, more able to function for the benefit of a regulated 'social market economy', on both the European Union and global levels.