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Record Nr.

UNINA9910411927503321

Autore

Rouch David

Titolo

The social licence for financial markets : reaching for the end and why It counts / / by David Rouch

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham, : Springer International Publishing, : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, 2020

ISBN

3-030-40220-7

Edizione

[1st edition 2020]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxv, 362 pages)

Disciplina

306.3

338.9

Soggetti

Economic development projects - Finance

Finance

Bank marketing

Economic growth

Development Finance

Finance, general

Financial Services

Economic Growth

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. The Great Re-evaluation: Reaching for an End -- Part I In the Beginning, an End -- 2. People, Firms, Markets, Behaviour -- 3. The Ends of Desire in Financial Markets -- Part II The Social Licence and Justice -- 4. The Social Licence for Financial Markets -- 5. Realising Justice: the Role of Written Standards -- Part III In the End, a Beginning -- 6. Behaviour—Change in Practice -- 7. Policy Implications -- 8. Conclusion—Not an End, but a Beginning.

Sommario/riassunto

This book is about what Mark Carney has called ‘the social licence for financial markets’ and how it can point us towards a more sustainable future. Author David Rouch argues that what it reveals contrasts sharply with the usual portrayals of markets as places of unrestrained financial self-interest. Drawing attention to a more complex reality and the presence of justice-focused aspirations in finance can positively impact individual, institutional, and systemic behaviour: change, not



imposed by regulators, but emerging from the very substance of market relationships. The finance sector should have a key role in addressing humanity’s increasingly pressing sustainability challenges. Yet the relationship between finance and society has not recovered from the 2008 crisis and the scandals and austerity that followed. The Covid-19 pandemic and its economic fallout is sharpening some of the issues and creating new ones. Recognising that financial markets operate subject to a social licence has the potential to galvanise market participants in tackling these challenges, strengthening social solidarity on which markets also depend, and to provide coordinates for navigating a way through the post-pandemic social, political and economic landscape.