Finance[electronic resource] :servan...
Dembinski, Pawel H., (1955-)

 

  • Finance[electronic resource] :servant or deceiver? : financialization at the crossroads /
  • 紀錄類型: 書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
    杜威分類號: 332
    書名/作者: Finance : servant or deceiver? : financialization at the crossroads // Paul H. Dembinski ; translated from the French by Kevin Cook.
    作者: Dembinski, Pawel H.,
    其他作者: Dembinski, Pawel H.,
    出版者: [Geneva] : : Observatoire de la Finance ;, 2009.
    面頁冊數: x, 185 p. : : ill. ;; 23 cm.
    附註: First published in French as: Finance servante ou finance trompeuse.
    標題: Finance - History.
    ISBN: 9780230595057
    ISBN: 0230595057
    書目註: Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-179) and index.
    內容註: The financial iceberg -- The historical development of finance -- The euphoric years -- Money: from servant to master -- ICT euphoria -- The break-up of money -- Players and institutions -- Markets as trust-building mechanisms -- Mega-players -- Custodians of the market temple --Public deficits and how they are financed -- The financial world view -- The efficiency ethos -- Risk and return: a neat paradigm -- Risk - fear of risk - a risk-free future -- From interest to greed : unbridledpassion -- A new pattern -- Financial relationships and financial transactions -- Financing relationships -- From financing relationships to financial transactions -- Financial transactions -- The spread of transactions -- The institutional process -- Financial markets as sounding boards -- Finance as intermediary -- Relationships and transactions : statistical orders of magnitude -- Finance and the rest of the economy --Very large corporations : the vehicles of financialization -- Very large corporations (VLCs) -- A global marketing economy -- Enterprises' value : new forms of capital -- Shareholder value : the mantra of the newforemen -- ROE rules -- Procedures as a vehicle for efficiency -- Financialization of the economic fabric -- VLCs' subcontractors -- SMEs : private equity on the prowl -- Tying customers to enterprises -- Plannedobsolescence -- 'Personalized' customer relations -- Dissolving products into services -- The alienation of the anaesthetized consumer -- Other aspectsof financialization -- The age of anticipation : banks and their customers -- Humanity in the grip of financialization -- Finance :a metaphysical response -- Implications of the new pattern -- Finance : what kind of society do we want? -- Limits inherent in the process itself -- The spectre of sterility -- Complexity -- Concentration of economic power -- Limits inherent in human nature -- Transactions : beyond conflicts of interest -- Ethical alienation -- A sense of helplessness -- What is to be done? -- Challenge financial ethics -- Encourage long-term relationships -- Change the system of remuneration -- Revisit financial process.
    摘要、提要註: During the last thirty years, finance has constantly increased not only its share of economicactivity but also of people's worldview and aspirations. We call this practical and conceptual process b3 sfinancialization b4 s. Financialization has transformed both our economy and our society byincreasingly organizing it around the search for financialefficiency. Today, pushed to its extremes, this tendency is coming close to its breaking point. However, a society based on fundamental values of free judgment, responsibility and solidarity - which forms part ofthe common good - is still possible.
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