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Finance and the good society /Robert J Shiller

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press , ©2012.Description: xiii, 288 pages ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780691154886
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 332 SHI
Contents:
Chief executive officers -- Investment managers -- Bankers -- Investment bankers -- Mortgage lenders and securitizers -- Traders and market makers -- Insurers -- Market designers and financial engineers -- Derivatives providers -- Lawyers and financial advisers -- Lobbyists -- Regulators -- Accountants and auditors -- Educators -- Public goods financiers -- Policy makers in charge of stabilizing the economy -- Trustees and nonprofit managers -- Philanthropists -- Finance, mathematics, and beauty -- Categorizing people : financiers versus artists and other idealists -- An impulse for risk taking -- An impulse for conventionality and familiarity -- Debt and leverage -- Some unfortunate incentives to sleaziness inherent in finance -- The significance of financial speculation -- Speculative bubbles and their costs to society -- Inequality and injustice -- Problems with philanthropy -- The dispersal of ownership of capital -- The great illusion : then and now.
Summary: Argues that finance should be defined not merely as the manipulation of money or the management of risk but as the stewardship of society's assets, and that new ways to rechannel financial creativity to benefit society as a whole are needed.
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Chief executive officers --
Investment managers --
Bankers --
Investment bankers --
Mortgage lenders and securitizers --
Traders and market makers --
Insurers --
Market designers and financial engineers --
Derivatives providers --
Lawyers and financial advisers --
Lobbyists --
Regulators --
Accountants and auditors --
Educators --
Public goods financiers --
Policy makers in charge of stabilizing the economy --
Trustees and nonprofit managers --
Philanthropists --
Finance, mathematics, and beauty --
Categorizing people : financiers versus artists and other idealists --
An impulse for risk taking --
An impulse for conventionality and familiarity --
Debt and leverage --
Some unfortunate incentives to sleaziness inherent in finance --
The significance of financial speculation --
Speculative bubbles and their costs to society --
Inequality and injustice --
Problems with philanthropy --
The dispersal of ownership of capital --
The great illusion : then and now.


Argues that finance should be defined not merely as the manipulation of money or the management of risk but as the stewardship of society's assets, and that new ways to rechannel financial creativity to benefit society as a whole are needed.

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