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30. The Great Illusion, Then and Now

From the book Finance and the Good Society

  • Robert J. Shiller
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400846177-033
© 2016 Princeton University Press, Princeton
From the book
Finance and the Good Society
Finance and the Good Society

Chapters in this book (39)

Frontmatter
Contents
Preface to the Paperback Edition
Preface
Introduction: Finance, Stewardship, and Our Goals
Part One. Roles and Responsibilities
1. Chief Executive Officers
2. Investment Managers
3. Bankers
4. Investment Bankers
5. Mortgage Lenders and Securitizers
6. Traders and Market Makers
7. Insurers
8. Market Designers and Financial Engineers
9. Derivatives Providers
10. Lawyers and Financial Advisers
11. Lobbyists
12. Regulators
13. Accountants and Auditors
14. Educators
15. Public Goods Financiers
16. Policy Makers in Charge of Stabilizing the Economy
17. Trustees and Nonprofit Managers
18. Philanthropists
Part Two. Finance and Its Discontents
19. Finance, Mathematics, and Beauty
20. Categorizing People: Financiers versus Artists and Other Idealists
21. An Impulse for Risk Taking
22. An Impulse for Conventionality and Familiarity
23. Debt and Leverage
24. Some Unfortunate Incentives to Sleaziness Inherent in Finance
25. The Significance of Financial Speculation
26. Speculative Bubbles and Their Costs to Society
27. Inequality and Injustice
28. Problems with Philanthropy
29. The Dispersal of Ownership of Capital
30. The Great Illusion, Then and Now
Epilogue: Finance, Power, and Human Values
Notes
References
Index
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