Can Finance Save the World? : Regaining Power over Money to Serve the Common Good.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Badré, Bertrand.

Contributor:

Macron, Emmanuel.

Brown, Gordon.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

International finance.

Monetary policy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (201 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Can Finance Save the World?

Place of Publication:

New York : Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Incorporated, 2018.

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.

"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.

Contents:

Intro

Title Page

CONTENTS

Copyright Page

Foreword by Emmanuel Macron

Foreword by Gordon Brown

Introduction: Finance at the Crossroads

PART ONE: Despite Being Led Nearly to Ruin, How We Can Still React

1 High Hopes from the Millennium Summit

2 The 2007-2008 Financial Crisis

3 One Main Lesson: Trust Is Gone

4 Great Hope II. All Together Now!

5 Renewed Centrifugal Forces

6 Frustration and Political Unrest

7 Humanity at a Crossroads

PART TWO: Resetting Finance for the Benefit of All

8 Back to Basics

9 The New Names of the Game

10 A Silent Revolution Is On

PART THREE: Finance at the Heart of Renewed International Cooperation

11 A Miracle to Be Preserved

12 Time to Adjust, Though

PART FOUR: Finance Serving the Common Good and the Sustainable Development of the World

13 The Multilateral Development Banks as a Laboratory?

14 Pushing Back or Extending the Frontiers of Development Finance

15 Using the Financial Cement

16 The Principle Put into Action

Conclusion: The Choice Is Ours

Notes

Acknowledgments

Index

About the Author.

Notes:

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