Can finance save the world?
Subtitle: regaining control over money to serve the common good
By: Bertrand Badré ; forewords by Emmanuel Macron, President of the French Republic, & Gordon Brown, Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781523094219
Subjects: Monetary policy; International finance
Other titles: Can finance save the world? :
Description: "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"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.