Finance and the Good Society / / Robert J. Shiller.
The reputation of the financial industry could hardly be worse than it is today in the painful aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis. New York Times best-selling economist Robert Shiller is no apologist for the sins of finance--he is probably the only person to have predicted both the stock market...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2013] ©2013 |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Edition: | With a New preface by the author |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface to the Paperback Edition
- Preface
- Introduction: Finance, Stewardship, and Our Goals
- Part One. Roles and Responsibilities
- 1. Chief Executive Officers
- 2. Investment Managers
- 3. Bankers
- 4. Investment Bankers
- 5. Mortgage Lenders and Securitizers
- 6. Traders and Market Makers
- 7. Insurers
- 8. Market Designers and Financial Engineers
- 9. Derivatives Providers
- 10. Lawyers and Financial Advisers
- 11. Lobbyists
- 12. Regulators
- 13. Accountants and Auditors
- 14. Educators
- 15. Public Goods Financiers
- 16. Policy Makers in Charge of Stabilizing the Economy
- 17. Trustees and Nonprofit Managers
- 18. Philanthropists
- Part Two. Finance and Its Discontents
- 19. Finance, Mathematics, and Beauty
- 20. Categorizing People: Financiers versus Artists and Other Idealists
- 21. An Impulse for Risk Taking
- 22. An Impulse for Conventionality and Familiarity
- 23. Debt and Leverage
- 24. Some Unfortunate Incentives to Sleaziness Inherent in Finance
- 25. The Significance of Financial Speculation
- 26. Speculative Bubbles and Their Costs to Society
- 27. Inequality and Injustice
- 28. Problems with Philanthropy
- 29. The Dispersal of Ownership of Capital
- 30. The Great Illusion, Then and Now
- Epilogue: Finance, Power, and Human Values
- Notes
- References
- Index