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  Title

  Finance and the good society

  Author

  Shiller, Robert J.  

  Publisher:

  Princeton University Press,

  Pub date:

  c2012.

  Pages:

  xiii, 288 p. ;

  ISBN:

  9780691154886

  Item info:

  1 copy available at Aurora Campus.
  

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    Aurora Campus	Copies	Material	Location	Map
    HG171 .S52 2012	1	Book	Available, On shelf

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  ISBN:

  9780691154886 (alk. paper)

  ISBN:

  0691154880 (alk. paper)

  Personal Author:

  Shiller, Robert J.

  Title:

  Finance and the good society / Robert J. Shiller.

  Publication info:

  Princeton, N.J. ; Oxford : Princeton University Press, c2012.

  Physical description:

  xiii, 288 p. ; 24 cm.

  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.

  Held by:

  AURORA

  Subject term:

  Finance--History.

  Subject term:

  Capitalism--History.

  Subject term:

  Social justice--History.

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