Ethical Finance and Prosperity - Beyond Environmental, Social and Governance Investing

This book explains how ethical finance works and which innovations it has engendered in financial and economic systems; clarifies the links between finance and ethics, going beyond Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) investing, and offers an approach, which is vital for most financial sectors, from microcredit to impact investing.

List of contents

Introduction 1. Why ethical finance: A quick deep dive into criticism of mainstream finance 2. An ethical mapping for ethical finance organizations 3. Ethical finance: origins and definition 4. Financing instruments and ethical finance 5. Investment instruments and ethical finance 6. How ethical finance is organized 7. Impact measures 8. Conditions for the development of Ethical finance 9. Closure: Ethical finance beyond the niche

About the author

Ugo Biggeri has been co-founder of Banca Etica Group in Italy of which he was past President. He is active within the main international networks of ethical finance and is a lecturer of Finance and Microcredit for Development at the University of Florence, Italy.
Giovanni Ferri is Professor of Economics in the Department of Law, Economics, Politics, and Modern Languages, LUMSA University, Rome, Italy. Formerly, he served at Banca d'Italia - Italy's Central Bank and banking supervisor - and at the World Bank.
Federica Ielasi is Associate Professor of Banking in the Department of Economics and Management, University of Florence, Italy. She has served many years in the board of ethical finance asset managing company in Italy.
Pedro M. Sasia is Head of the Department of Humanities at the University of Deusto, Bilbao, Spain. He is a main promoter of ethical banking in Spain and president of European Federation of Ethical Banks (FEBEA).

Product details

• Authors: Ugo Biggeri, Ugo Ferri Biggeri, Ferri Giovanni, Federica Ielasi, Pedro Manuel Sasia
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.06.2025
• EAN: 9781032456256
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3245625-6
• No. of pages: 277
• Series: Routledge International Studies in Money and Banking
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Sustainable Development, Business & Economics / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Business Ethics, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / Macroeconomics, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Finance / General, Banking, macroeconomics, Environmental Economics, Sales & marketing, Development Studies, Sales and marketing