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e-book : Finance and the good society.

Ebook

SHILLER Robert J.

PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS

2012

288

FINANCIAL MARKET ; CAPITALISM ; ECONOMIC CRISIS ; ECONOMIC HISTORY

Link to the ebook : https://bibliotheque.univ-catholille.fr/Default/doc/nlebk/58...

eISBN : 9781400846177

Contents : Preface

Introduction : Finance, Stewardship, and Our Goals

Part 1. Roles and Responsibilities
1. Chief Executive Offi cers
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 Nonprofi t Managers
18. Philanthropists

Part 2. 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 Signifi cance 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

Language : English

Location : Nice Library

Material : Electronic

Statement : Présent

Owner : Bibliothèque