Finance and the good society (Record no. 99321)
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| 000 -LEADER | |
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| fixed length control field | 01663nam a2200169Ia 4500 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 978-0691154886 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 332 SHI |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Shiller, Robert J. |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Finance and the good society |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Princeton University Press, |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | New Jersey |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 2012 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | xiii,288p |
| Other physical details | 24 cm; Hard Bound |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | $24.95 Flipkart |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Chief executive officers --<br/>Investment managers --<br/>Bankers --<br/>Investment bankers --<br/>Mortgage lenders and securitizers --<br/>Traders and market makers --<br/>Insurers --<br/>Market designers and financial engineers --<br/>Derivatives providers --<br/>Lawyers and financial advisers --<br/>Lobbyists --<br/>Regulators --<br/>Accountants and auditors --<br/>Educators --<br/>Public goods financiers --<br/>Policy makers in charge of stabilizing the economy --<br/>Trustees and nonprofit managers --<br/>Philanthropists --<br/>Finance, mathematics, and beauty --<br/>Categorizing people : financiers versus artists and other idealists --<br/>An impulse for risk taking --<br/>An impulse for conventionality and familiarity --<br/>Debt and leverage --<br/>Some unfortunate incentives to sleaziness inherent in finance --<br/>The significance of financial speculation --<br/>Speculative bubbles and their costs to society --<br/>Inequality and injustice --<br/>Problems with philanthropy --<br/>The dispersal of ownership of capital --<br/>The great illusion : then and now. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | Argues that finance should be defined not merely as the manipulation of money or the management of risk but as the stewardship of society's assets, and that new ways to rechannel financial creativity to benefit society as a whole are needed. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Finance |
| -- | Economics |
| -- | Social responsibility in banking |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Koha item type | Books |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Damaged status | Not for loan | Collection code | Home library | Current library | Date acquired | Source of acquisition | Cost, normal purchase price | Total Checkouts | Full call number | Barcode | Date last seen | Price effective from | Koha item type |
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| GSB Collection | 20/05/2007 | 20120505D1004652 05/05/2012 | 1.00 | 332 SHI | 40962 | 10/05/2013 | 22/06/2019 | Books |