On Values in Finance and Ethics Forgotten Trails and Promising Pathways /

• Main Author: Schäfer, Henry (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Finance,
• Subjects: Capital market.; Behavioral economics.; Social responsibility of business.; Business ethics.; Business enterprises-Finance.; Industrial management-Environmental aspects.; Capital Markets.; Behavioral Finance.; Corporate Social Responsibility.; Business Ethics.; Business Finance.; Sustainability Management.

This book uses the building blocks of modern capital market theory, including behavioural finance, as the point of departure for an analysis of hidden ethical content in the contemporary research into capital markets. It illustrates the significant degree of alienation between the financial and the...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• A 'Selfie' of Finance and Ethics
• On Values: The (Hidden) Ethical Framework in Capital Market Theory (An Outline of Ethics in Economics and Finance)
• Key Points of Sustainability and CSR: Stakeholder Theory and the Theory of External Effects
• Understanding how Stakeholders are Affecting Sustainability and Finance
• Concluding Remarks
• Perspectives.