TY  - BOOK
AU  - Shiller, Robert J.
TI  - Finance and the good society 
SN  - 978-0691154886
U1  - 332 SHI 
PY  - 2012///
CY  - New Jersey
PB  - Princeton University Press
KW  - Finance
KW  - Economics
KW  - Social responsibility in banking
N1  - $24.95  Flipkart; Chief executive officers --
Investment managers --
Bankers --
Investment bankers --
Mortgage lenders and securitizers --
Traders and market makers --
Insurers --
Market designers and financial engineers --
Derivatives providers --
Lawyers and financial advisers --
Lobbyists --
Regulators --
Accountants and auditors --
Educators --
Public goods financiers --
Policy makers in charge of stabilizing the economy --
Trustees and nonprofit managers --
Philanthropists --
Finance, mathematics, and beauty --
Categorizing people : financiers versus artists and other idealists --
An impulse for risk taking --
An impulse for conventionality and familiarity --
Debt and leverage --
Some unfortunate incentives to sleaziness inherent in finance --
The significance of financial speculation --
Speculative bubbles and their costs to society --
Inequality and injustice --
Problems with philanthropy --
The dispersal of ownership of capital --
The great illusion : then and now
N2  - 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
ER  -