Prosperity, Better Business Makes the Greater Good by Mayer, Colin -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover page Halftitle page Frontispiece Title page Copyright page Dedication page Praise for the book Preamble Contents Preface

The Challenge The Cause An Alternative The Vision The Book Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5

Part 1: Principles

1. Purpose

Where We Are How We Got Here The Trusted Corporation The Seventh Age

2. Values

A Synthesis Relationships Corporate Consciousness Integrity Kindness Implications

Part 2: Provenance

3. Evolution

Immaculate Conception Towns and Universities A Soulless Sole Islamic Routes Cum Panis A Guilded Age Go East, Young Man Public and Private Parts Banks and Bourses A Thousand Years of Corporations

4. Ownership

A Green and Black Man Family Affairs Economic Misconceptions Any Ownership Is Fine, So Long as It’s All Mine Family Firms The United Kingdom Germany Japan The United States Lessons from Four Countries The Magic of Modern Portfolio Theory Vanishing Stock Markets The Transformation Process Minority Affirmative Action Green Towns and Dark Satanic Mills

Part 3: Practice

5. Governance

On Purpose Governance Not Managing Doing Well by Doing Good Investing for the Long Term The Evidence The Thesis The Governance of Purpose

6. Performance

What Counts? Thrive and Survive A Man’s Firm Is His Fiefdom Natural Income No Gain with Pain What Makes Natural Capital So Valuable? How Should Natural Capital Maintenance Expenditures Be Determined? Avoiding Valuing the Invaluable Lie of the Land or the Land of Lies Profiting on Purpose Creation Not Conservation Implementation

Part 4: Policy

7. Law

Context Concept Creation Confirmation Consequence Conclusion

8. Regulation

The Purpose of Regulation The Purpose of Finance Disintermediation Shady Banking Mobile Money Risk Management Regulating on Purpose

Part 5: Partnership

9. Finance

Borrower’s Remorse A Swedish Model The Risk of Risk Committees The Swedish Way In Equity A Taxing Problem In Neutral Enabling Abundance Integrating Finance and Investment Putting Financial Policy Right

10. Investment

The Problem The Big Sink Not Accounting for Infrastructure Public Commitment Private-Sector Commitment Three Phases Partnership Closure

Prospects Postscript

Principal Propositions Practical Prescriptions Policy Proposals

Notes

Preamble Preface Part 1 Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Part 5 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Prospects

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