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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Finance, Society and Sustainability
    sub title: How to Make the Financial System Work for the Economy, People and Planet
  name:
    name part: Silver, Nick.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xxk
    date issued: 2017
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XVII, 304 p. 38 illus. online resource.
  abstract: This book is a critical analysis of the impact of the financial system on the economy, society and the natural environment. It cuts through the noise to looks at its purpose, its activities, and what it does in practice. Unlike other books that cover the last financial crisis and the risk of another one; this book is about the consequence of the financial system continuing in its current form. It argues that the financial system is a construct of flawed economic theories, designed in the hope that the market will efficiently allocate society’s capital. Instead, the finance sector allocates savings and investment to maximize its own revenues, with resulting collateral damage to the economy, society and the environment. Although governments try to preserve and regulate the existing system, it is being replaced by a new system driven by technological innovation. The book describes the opportunities this presents for a renaissance of the financial system to actually meet the needs of society, and to re-engineer our economy to avoid environmental crisis. The book is for anyone who would like to understand the finance system’s purpose, what it does in practice and its impact on the real world. For those working in the industry it provides an overview of the system, their place within it, and how to bring about change. For students and academics it provides a valuable critique of the financial system, and the theories on which it is based. For financial policymakers and regulators it identifies key challenges in their activities.
  table of contents: Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: What has finance ever done for us?- Chapter 3: Systems thinking and evolution -- Chapter 4: Bad theory and bad practice -- Chapter 5: Financial alchemy: the system now -- Chapter 6: Why pensions are not working -- Chapter 7: Why investment is not working -- Chapter 8: Why banking is not working Chapter 9: The housing pyramid Chapter 10: The wrong economy -- Chapter 11: Bloodsucking vampire Griffin -- Chapter 12: Conclusion.
  note: by Nick Silver.
  subject:
    topic: Finance
  subject:
    topic: Corporate governance
  subject:
    topic: Business enterprises
    topic: Finance
  subject:
    topic: Finance, Public
  subject:
    topic: Corporations
    topic: Finance
  subject:
    topic: Banks and banking
  subject:
    topic: Capital market
  subject:
    topic: Finance
  subject:
    topic: Capital Markets
  subject:
    topic: Public Finance
  subject:
    topic: Corporate Finance
  subject:
    topic: Banking
  subject:
    topic: Business Finance
  subject:
    topic: Corporate Governance
  classification: HG4523
  classification: 332.0415
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9781137560612
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-56061-2
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    record creation date: 170810
    record change date: 20170920152805.0
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