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Ethics and the global financial crisis : why incompetence is worse than greed /
"Professor De Bruin has written an important book. For all of the thousands of pages written on the recent global financial crisis, there is very little solid ethical analysis of the underlying causes and concepts. He makes a critical distinction between the motivation of financial actors and t...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2015.
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| Colección: | Business, value creation, and society.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "Professor De Bruin has written an important book. For all of the thousands of pages written on the recent global financial crisis, there is very little solid ethical analysis of the underlying causes and concepts. He makes a critical distinction between the motivation of financial actors and their competence, then argues that most of the analysis of the crisis has been about motivation. In particular many have called into question the very idea of capitalism as seeking to maximize profits for shareholders. While DeBruin admits that motivation is an important idea, he traces much of the difficulty to incompetence on the part of multiple stakeholders, who have no real motivation to learn about how the basic ideas in finance actually work"-- |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiv, 228 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781316207406 1316207404 9781139237093 1139237098 9781316203767 131620376X 9781316190807 1316190803 1316211126 9781316211120 1316209261 9781316209264 1316205592 9781316205594 1316188949 9781316188941 1316201899 9781316201893 |