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

Green, Stephen

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1846142369 ISBN 13: 9781846142369

Publisher: Allen Lane, 2009

Synopsis

How should we create wealth in societies, and why is it necessary to do so? What improves the lives of the largest number of people? And how do we, living in a globalised world caught in an age of financial and ecological turbulence, respond to the differing needs of individuals and institutions?

Stephen Green, Chairman of HSBC, reflects on how the human desires for exploration and exchange have led us into a globalised, urban world, and considers why it is that capitalism is the best system by which to improve material human wealth. As the world's financial order is in a state of flux, how do we align these drives, and capitalism, with our spiritual and psychological needs? And how should the financial sector respond not only to the current crisis but to the wider needs of the people it serves. Do businesses - and banks in particular - have a duty to society that goes beyond the creation of profit? Does open market capitalism remain our best hope for creating wealth that benefits all of society? Encompassing history, politics, religion and economics, Good Value offers new perspectives on how we can live in a richer, more dynamic world.

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Review:

'A remarkable book...Stephen Green weaves together his reflections on economics, geopolitics, history, philosophy, literature and religion against the background of the current crisis. Deeply challenging as he confronts the most vexed questions of our age.' -- Lord Griffiths, Vice Chairman of Goldman Sachs International

'An intensely intimate, refreshing and at times searing read ... Green's book should be required reading in business schools and boardrooms where flip charts and Powerpoint presentations dominate.' -- Evening Standard

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

'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.'
-- Neil MacGregor, Director of the British Museum

'There could hardly be a better moment for this book to be published.' -- Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury

Review:

'An intensely intimate, refreshing and at times searing read ... Green's book should be required reading in business schools and boardrooms where flip charts and Powerpoint presentations dominate.'

About this edition

• Publisher: Allen Lane
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1846142369
• ISBN 13: 9781846142369
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224