Finance: Servant or Deceiver?: Financialization at the Crossroads - Paperback

by P. Dembinski (Author)

During the last 30 years, finance has increased not only its share of economic activity but also of people's aspirations. This has transformed society by increasingly organizing it around the search for financial efficiency. Is a society based on fundamental values of free judgment, responsibility and solidarity still possible?

Author Biography

PAUL H. DEMBINSKI is a Professor at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, and the Director of the Observatoire de la Finance in Geneva, Switzerland. He is founder and editor of the bilingual journal Finance& the Common Good/Bien Commun. He has written many books and scientific articles in the field of internationalization of enterprises, competition, ethics and finance.