Ethics and Finance - An Introduction

"The financial crisis has also impacted enormously on the way people think about finance and the financial sector. This sector has always been treated with a certain amount of moral suspicion, but events have thrown a spotlight on its practices, and manypeople don't like what they see. They particularly dislike the way the sector appears to continue thriving, paying massive bonuses, earning large profits and paying little taxes, while the public at large have, as a consequence it seems of the banks' excesses, to suffer unemployment and austerity. But there is also much more widespread criticism than before of the specific practices of the sector"--

List of contents

Preface; 1. Opening case study: the financial crisis; 2. Introduction; 3. Ethical foundations; 4. The financial system; 5. Lending and borrowing: where finance meets ordinary people; 6. Trading and speculation: the ethics of financial markets; 7. Agency and accountability: managing other people's money; 8. Products, promotion and client relationships; 9. Financial reporting and corporate governance; 10. Epilogue: the ethics of financial regulation.

About the author

John Hendry is a Fellow of Girton College at the University of Cambridge, and Emeritus Professor at Henley Business School, University of Reading. He is the author of Between Enterprise and Ethics: Business and Management in a Bimoral Society (2004).

Product details

• Authors: John Hendry, John (University of Cambridge) Hendry, Hendry John
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.11.2013
• EAN: 9781107024229
• ISBN: 978-1-107-02422-9
• Dimensions: 182 mm x 254 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Cambridge Applied Ethics; Cambridge Applied Ethics
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Business; PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Business ethics & social responsibility, Ethics & moral philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy, Finance & accounting, Economic & financial crises & disasters, Business ethics and social responsibility, Legal Ethics & Professional Conduct, Finance and the finance industry