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

Green, Stephen

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0802145256 ISBN 13 : 9780802145253

Editeur : Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press, 2011

Synopsis

Can one be both an ethical person and an effective businessperson? Stephen Green, an ordained priest and the chairman of HSBC, thinks so. In Good Value, Green retraces the history of the global economy and its financial systems, and shows that while the marketplace has delivered huge advantages to humanity, it has also abandoned over a billion people to extreme poverty, encouraged overconsumption and debt, and ravaged the environment.

How do we reconcile the demands of capitalism with both the common good and our own spiritual and psychological needs as individuals? To answer that, and some of the most vexing questions of our age, Green takes us on a lively and erudite journey through history, looking for lessons in the work of economists and philosophers, businessmen and poets, theologians and novelists, playwrights and political scientists. An essential business book by a man who is uniquely qualified to write it, Good Value is a timely and persuasive analysis of the most pressing financial and moral questions we face.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Stephen Green - current Chairman of HSBC and ordained priest - believes above all that our lives should be lived with integrity. And more than that: these beliefs should not be left at the boardroom door. In Good Value, he argues that our businesses have a duty to society and explores how those of us who work in a profit-making workplace can combine our spiritual and ethical selves with our everyday work. Examining money markets across the globe and through the ages in a fascinating study of history, politics, religion and economics, Stephen Green shows how financial progress shouldn't mean an end to ethics at work.

Revue de presse

Engaging and convincing (The Times)

Offers a challenge to a financial elite that sold its soul for profit . . . welcome and timely . . . lucidly argued (Spectator Business)

A heartfelt and humane defence of the globalising process . . . cheering, even inspiring, to come across a prince of finance who tries so sincerely and so eloquently to heal the schism (Independent)

There could hardly be a better moment for this book to be published (Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury)

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0802145256
• ISBN 13: 9780802145253
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 256
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible