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Finance and the good society
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Title
Finance and the good society / Robert J. Shiller.
ISBN
9780691154886 (alk. paper)
0691154880 (alk. paper)
Published
Princeton, N.J. ; Oxford : Princeton University Press, c2012.
Physical Description
xiii, 288 pages ; 24 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 23, 2012
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-272) and index.
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.
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