Ethics and the global financial crisis : why incompetence is worse than greed / Boudewijn de Bruin.

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TextLanguage: English Series: Business, value creation, and societyPublication details: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press 2015.Description: 1 volumeISBN:

9781107421653 (pbk.) :

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174.4 23 BRU

Contents:

1. Financial ethics: virtues in the market 2. Epistemic ethics: virtues of the mind 3. Internalizing virtues: the clients 4. Case study I: primes and subprimes 5. Incorporating virtue: the banks 6. Case study II: nerds and quants 7. Communicating virtues: the raters 8. Case study III: scores and accounts

Summary: "Professor De Bruin has written an important book. For all of the thousands of pages written on the recent global financial crisis, there is very little solid ethical analysis of the underlying causes and concepts. He makes a critical distinction between the motivation of financial actors and their competence, then argues that most of the analysis of the crisis has been about motivation. In particular many have Read more...

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General Books	CUTN Central Library Philosophy & psychology	Non-fiction	174.4 BRU (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		37485

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"Professor De Bruin has written an important book. For all of the thousands of pages written on the recent global financial crisis, there is very little solid ethical analysis of the underlying causes and concepts. He makes a critical distinction between the motivation of financial actors and their competence, then argues that most of the analysis of the crisis has been about motivation. In particular many have Read more...

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