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Finance and the good society /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, N.J. ; Oxford :
Princeton University Press,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.