| Description |
1 online resource (297 p.) |
| Series |
Routledge International Studies in Money and Banking Series |
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Routledge International Studies in Money and Banking Series
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| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Foreword -- Acknowledgement -- Introduction -- 1 Why Ethical Finance: A Quick Deep Dive in Criticism of Mainstream Finance -- 1.1 Finance is good But... Does it Create Prosperity? -- 1.2 Is Global Finance a Freely Competitive Market? -- 1.3 Financial Leverage and Financial Hypertrophy -- 1.4 Unfair Fiscal Behaviours and Fiscal Opacity -- 1.5 Illegality and Finance -- 1.6 High-Speed Speculation |
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1.7 Does Sustainability and Prosperity Matter? Or are we Living in a Greenwashing Era? -- 1.8 Weaknesses in the Regulatory Compliance Framework -- 1.9 Ethical Finance for Prosperity? -- 2 An Ethical Mapping of Ethical Finance Organisations -- 2.1 What Does it Mean to think Ethically? -- 2.2 Ethical Thinking in Economics -- 2.3 Ethics and Finance -- 3 Ethical Finance: Origins and Definition -- 3.1 The History of Social Concerns in Banking -- 3.2 The birth of Ethical Finance -- 3.3 The Principles of Ethical Finance -- 3.4 The Experience of Islamic Finance |
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3.5 Empirical Evidence: The Performance of Ethical Banks -- 4 Financing Instruments and Ethical Finance -- 4.1 The Principles of Ethical Finance Applied to Financial Instruments -- 4.2 Ethical Financial Intermediation -- 4.3 The Relational tools of Ethical Finance in Financial Intermediation -- 4.4 Examples of Mediation in Ethical Finance -- 4.5 Green Loans -- 4.6 Ethical Finance Instruments in Microfinance -- 4.7 Other Social Finance Instruments -- 5 Investment Instruments and Ethical Finance -- 5.1 Financial Investment: Services, Financial Instruments and Principles |
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5.2 Sustainable Investment Funds -- 5.3 Ethical Investment Funds -- 5.4 Other Sustainable Investment Instruments -- 6 How Ethical Finance is Organised -- 6.1 Ownership Structure -- 6.2 Governance -- 6.3 Disclosure and Operational Management -- 6.4 Control System and other Managerial Tools -- 6.5 Risk Management -- 6.6 Consumer Protection and Ethical Finance: The Pitfalls of MiFID II -- 6.7 The Management of Contradictions in Ethical Finance -- 7 Measuring Impact -- 7.1 Why Impact Measurement: Efficiency, Effectiveness and Limitations -- 7.2 Measuring Impact for Critical Consumers |
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7.3 Measuring Impacts in Finance -- 8 Conditions for the Development of Ethical Finance -- 8.1 Business in Community: Ethical Finance as Citizens -- 8.2 Consumers' Responsibility in the Promotion of Ethical Finance -- 8.3 A normative Context to Promote Ethical Finance -- 8.4 Getting Allies: Joint Efforts with Some other Transformative Proposals -- 8.5 Ethical Finance in Academia: Research and Education on Ethical Finance -- 9 Closure: Ethical Finance Beyond the Niche -- 9.1 Future Challenges -- 9.2 How Could Ethical Finance Scale Up? -- 9.3 Conclusions -- References -- Index |
| Summary |
This book explains how ethical finance works and which innovations it has engendered in financial and economic systems; clarifies the links between finance and ethics, going beyond Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) investing, and offers an approach, which is vital for most financial sectors, from microcredit to impact investing |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Subject |
Finance
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Financial institutions
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Finance.
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Financial institutions.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Ferri, Giovanni
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Ielasi, Federica
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Sasia, Pedro Manuel
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| ISBN |
9781000935516 |
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1000935515 |
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