Can finance save the world? : regaining power over money to serve the common good / Bertrand Badré ; forewords by Emmanuel Macron, President of the French Republic, and Gordon Brown, Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
By: Badré, Bertrand [author.].
Publisher: Oakland, CA : Berrett-Koehler Publishers, [2018]Description: xvi, 256 pages ; 23 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781523094219 (paperback).Subject(s): International finance | Monetary policy | BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / Theory | BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Finance | BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / International / EconomicsGenre/Form: Print books.Summary: "How to Make Finance a Force for Good Just as Thomas Piketty offered a sweeping critique and progressive reassessment of capitalism, former World Bank Group chief financial officer Bertrand Badre looks at the destructive role finance played in the global economic crisis of 2007-2008 and offers a bold prescription for making it a force for good. Badre describes how finance can be harnessed to help us solve many of the world's biggest problems--climate change, poverty, infrastructure rebuilding, and more. As he writes, "When controlled and used intelligently, with benevolence and inventiveness, finance can accomplish great things.""--Summary: "The world is changing, but innovative answers can be found in tradition. Badre offers comprehensive outlines as to how finance is the key to ensuring a sustainable future, ripe with growth, eradication of poverty and modernization"--| Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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"How to Make Finance a Force for Good Just as Thomas Piketty offered a sweeping critique and progressive reassessment of capitalism, former World Bank Group chief financial officer Bertrand Badre looks at the destructive role finance played in the global economic crisis of 2007-2008 and offers a bold prescription for making it a force for good. Badre describes how finance can be harnessed to help us solve many of the world's biggest problems--climate change, poverty, infrastructure rebuilding, and more. As he writes, "When controlled and used intelligently, with benevolence and inventiveness, finance can accomplish great things.""--
"The world is changing, but innovative answers can be found in tradition. Badre offers comprehensive outlines as to how finance is the key to ensuring a sustainable future, ripe with growth, eradication of poverty and modernization"--