The discussion among some of the leading experts of banking and financial history highlights the most important aspects of the debates in the economic and financial crisis that started in 2007-08: the origins, the regulation and de-regulation issue, the role of new financial products, the global consequences of the crisis, and the special contribution historians can offer to understand the many aspects of this phenomenon.
Keywords: Crisi economica e finanziaria, Finanziarizzazione e globalizzazione, Regulation e de-regulation, Nuovi prodotti finanziari