01842nam a22002057a 4500 20180919131436.0 180919b xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9780691154886 332 SHI Robert J Shiller Finance and the good society /Robert J Shiller Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press , ©2012. xiii, 288 pages ; 24 cm 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. Social Sciences Social justice -- History. Social responsibility in banking Robert J Shiller CPT 50211 50211 0 0 ddc 0 0 SNUL CPT 2018-09-19 0 332 SHI CP17 2018-09-19 00:00:00 2018-09-19 CPT