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082 _a332 SHI
100 _aRobert J Shiller
245 _aFinance and the good society
_c/Robert J Shiller
260 _aPrinceton, N.J.
_b: Princeton University Press
_c, ©2012.
300 _axiii, 288 pages
_c; 24 cm
505 _aChief 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.
520 _a 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.
650 _aSocial Sciences
655 _aSocial justice -- History.
_bSocial responsibility in banking
700 _aRobert J Shiller
942 _cCPT
999 _c50211
_d50211