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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
George A Aragon |
ISBN: | 9780195305968 0195305965 |
OCLC Number: | 505018135 |
Description: | xv, 135 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
Contents: | Normative and positive approaches to financial ethics -- Financial ethics as a field of study -- Elements of a positive financial ethics -- The ethical technologies of finance -- Studies on the incidence of expropriation -- Financial research relating to trust. |
Responsibility: | George A. Aragon. |
Abstract:
The text proposes that many "finance" problems are actually "ethics" problems and that many economic phenomena such as monitoring, bonding, certification, signaling, incentive contracts, and governance structures can be explained as mechanisms for controlling moral risks.
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If you are looking for a structured, systematic approach to understand how ethical issues impact financial decision makers and financial markets, this book fits the bill. George Aragon has done a wonderful job of collecting a vast array of elements that already permeate the literature in finance, and organizing them into a coherent whole. * Hersh Shefrin, Mario L. Belotti Professor of Finance, Santa Clara University & author of Beyond Greed and Fear * Read more...
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