O'Sullivan / Allington / Esposito The Philosophy, Politics and Economics of Finance in the 21st Century

From Hubris to Disgrace
Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-1-135-12252-2
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 532 Seiten

Reihe: Economics as Social Theory

Since 2008, the financial sector has been the subject of extensive criticism. Much of this criticism has focused on the morality of the actors involved in the crisis and its extended aftermath. This book analyses the key moral and political philosophical issues of the crisis and relates them to the political economy of finance. It also examines to what extent the financial sector can or should be reformed.

This book is unified by the view that the financial sector had been a self-serving and self-regulating elite consumed by greed, speculation and even lawlessness, with little sense of responsibility to the wider society or common good. In light of critical analysis by authors from a variety of backgrounds and persuasions, suggestions for reform and improvement are proposed, in some cases radical reform. By placing the world of finance under a microscope, this book analyses the assumptions that have led from hubris to disgrace as it provides suggestions for an improved society.

Rooted in philosophical reflection, this book invites a critical reassessment of finance and its societal role in the 21st century. This book will be of interest to academics, politicians, central bankers and financial regulators who wish to improve the morality of finance.

Autoren/Hrsg.

O'Sullivan, Patrick

Allington, Nigel F. B.

Allington, Nigel

Esposito, Mark

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftssysteme, Wirtschaftsstrukturen
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Unternehmensorganisation, Corporate Responsibility Unternehmensethik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction: The Nadir of 2008 and its Aftermath 2. Asset Management: Some Considerations on Performance 3. Risk in the Age of Crises 4. Financialisation 5. Is Islamic Finance a Complement to Conventional Western Finance? Underlying Principles and Viability 6. We’re Still Dancing: Stakeholder Expectation and its role in Decision Making in the Financial Sector 7. The Impact of the Subprime Financial Crisis on the Eastern European Transition Economies and Why Poland is an Outlier? 8. China as cause and victim of the US subprime financial crisis 9. Default Invariance: A Naïve Category Theory of Law and Finance 10. Europe Needs the Liberal Keynes 11. Neologism as Theoretical, Innovation in Economics: The case of ‘Financialisation’ 12. Ethics: From Negative Regulations to Fidelity to the Event 13. The Bank, its Societal Functions and its Practices: Conflictual Relationships between an Economic Agent and Democracy 14. The Sufficiency Economy: a Thai Response to the Asian Financial Crisis 15. Ethics should not Cloud Business or Financial Decisions: or the enduring power of the Neo-classical Paradigm 16. The state as a potentially immoral catalyst in financial crises 17. The Psychology of Unethical Behavior in the Finance Industry 18. Financial Liberalism and New Institutional Environment: The 2007-08 Financial Crisis as a (de)Regulatory Deadlock 19. Naturalising Techniques and Naturalised Discourses: Thoughts on the Media’s Role in the Great Recession 20. The All-encompassing Hijack 21. Heated Debates and Cool Analysis: Thinking well about Financial Ethics 22. Developing Country Perspectives: A look at the Nigerian Banking Sector Crisis 23. Theological and Historical Perspectives on Contemporary Accounting 24. Whither Finance now?

Über Autor(innen)

Patrick O’Sullivan is Professor of Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility at Grenoble École de Management, France, and University of Warsaw, Poland.

Nigel F.B. Allington is Professor of Applied Macroeconomics at the Grenoble École de Management, France, and Fellow and Director of Studies in Economics at Downing College, University of Cambridge, UK.

Mark Esposito is Associate Professor of Business and Economics at Grenoble École de Management, France, a member of the teaching faculty at the Harvard University Extension School, and Senior Associate at the University of Cambridge-CISL, UK.