TY - BOOK AU - Badré,Bertrand TI - Can finance save the world?: regaining power over money to serve the common good SN - 9781523094219 (paperback) AV - HG3881 .B2512 2018 U1 - 332.042 23 PY - 2018///] CY - Oakland, CA PB - Berrett-Koehler Publishers KW - International finance KW - Monetary policy KW - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / Theory KW - bisacsh KW - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Finance KW - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / International / Economics N2 - "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"-- ER -