The Jerome Levy Economics Institute of Bard College - Acknowledgements - Notes on the Contributors - Stability in the US Financial System; D.B.Papadimitriou - The 1930s Financial Reforms in Historical Perspective; R.Sylla - Comments; D.C.Wheelock & R.S.Kroszner - The Great Deposit Insurance Debate; M.D.Flood - Supervision and the Great Deposit Insurance Debate; R.W.Nelson - The 'Chicago Plan' and New Deal Banking Reform; R.J.Phillips - The Political Economy of Financial Reform in the US and the UK; G.Garcia - The Limits of Prudential Supervision: Economic Problems, Institutional Failure and Competence; B.Shull - The Current State of Banking Reform; G.G.Kaufman - A Comparison of Proposals to Restructure the US Financial System; R.A.Gilbert - Designing a Regulatory Structure for the Next Sixty Years; C.England - Comment; L.R.Mote - The Changing World of Banking: Setting the Regulatory Agenda; J.R.Barth & R.D.Brumbaugh, Jr - Comment; G.A.Dymski - Narrow Banks: An Alternative Approach to Banking Reform; K.Spong - Community Development Banks; H.P.Minsky, D.B.Papadimitriou, R.J.Phillips & L.R.Wray - Finance and Its Reform: Beyond Laissez-Faire; G.Caprio, Jr & L.H.Summers - Comment; D.J.Mathieson - Index