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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Shiller, Robert J. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, N.J. ; Oxford : Princeton University Press, 2013.
Subjects:
Finance > History.
Capitalism > History.
Social justice > History.
Finances > Histoire.
Justice sociale > Histoire.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Finance.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Government & Business.
Finances.
Capitalisme.
Aspects sociaux.
Ethique.
Justice sociale.
Intérêt public.
Capitalism
Finance
Social justice
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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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