Good Value: Reflections on Money, Morality and an Uncertain World - Hardcover

Green, Stephen

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0802119174 ISBN 13: 9780802119179

Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Pr, 2010

Synopsis

Green confronts some of HardCover. Pub Date: 2010 02 Pages: 232 in Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press Can one be both an ethical person Show and an effective businessperson Stephen Green an ordained priest and the chairman of HSBC. Thinks so In Good Value. of the most vexing questions of our age and argues that despite its recent lapses. the global financial industry is more necessary than ever. Also necessary. however. are good businesspeople who look to their principles and not just their profit margins. In order to understand the turbulence of the present. Green begins by retracing the history of the global economy and its financial systems. from ancient government granaries in Alexandria to the Italian banks that flourished during the Renaissance. He finds that free markets are a persistent phenomenon throughout history. A highly efficient allocator of capital that has de...

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'In this very personal book Stephen Green offers a moral reading of the recent economic crisis, setting it in a 2,000 year sweep of scripture and economics, history and literature that runs from Isaiah to Faust.'

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'Entertaining, unpompous, clever, likeable ... Stephen Green is remarkably like his new book ... a stunning tour de force analysis of the state of the world.'

About this edition

• Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Pr
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0802119174
• ISBN 13: 9780802119179
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 232