Prof Gary Dymski received his doctorate in economics from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 1987. He has been a fellow in economic studies at the Brookings Institution, and since 1991 has been a member of the economics department at the University of California, Riverside. In 2003-09 he served as founding director of the University of California’s academic/policy center in Sacramento. Gary’s most recent books are Capture and Exclude: Developing Nations and the Poor in Global Finance (Tulika Books, New Delhi, 2007), co-edited with Amiya Bagchi, and Reimagining Growth: Toward a Renewal of the Idea of Development, co-edited with Silvana DePaula (Zed, London, 2005). His current research interests include: money, space, and inequality; the social and economic aspects of banking and finance; financial regulation and economic policy; financial fragility and financial exclusion; and the subprime and other financial crises.