Finance and the Good Society by Shiller, Robert J. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Copyright Contents Preface to the Paperback Edition Preface Introduction: Finance, Stewardship, and Our Goals Part One: Roles and Responsibilities

1. Chief Executive Officers 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 Nonprofit Managers 18. Philanthropists

Part Two: 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 Significance 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 Notes References Index

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