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.]

Material type:

TextPublisher: Oakland, CA : Berrett-Koehler Publishers, [2018]Description: xvi, 256 pages ; 23 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

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volume

ISBN:

9781523094219 (paperback)

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DDC classification:

332.042 23

LOC classification:

HG3881 .B2512 2018

Other classification:

BUS069030 | BUS027000 | BUS069020

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.""-- Provided by publisher.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"-- Provided by publisher.

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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.""-- Provided by publisher.

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

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