The Philosophy of Money and Finance -

The Philosophy of Money and Finance

Buch | Hardcover
336 Seiten
2024
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-289880-7 (ISBN)
99,75 inkl. MwSt
The Philosophy of Money and Finance presents sixteen original essays providing a comprehensive introduction to questions concerning the nature of money and monetary value, the epistemology of markets, and the ethics of financial systems.
Most people use money almost every day, and financial assets have become so important to modern life that they determine our fate both as individuals and as societies. Yet we seldom stop to think about what all of this means, how it works, and how it ought to work. How can a small piece of paper in your wallet have value? How can so much power be vested in the numbers that roll across bankers' computer screens? What role should financial assets and financial institutions play in our lives and in society?

The philosophy of money and finance inquires into these types of questions, and takes a look 'under the hood' of money and finance, to address issues concerning the nature of money and the normative foundations of financial systems. Although philosophical theorizing about money and finance dates back to antiquity, the topic has only recently emerged as a central research focus. Economic globalization, technological innovation, the events of the 2008 financial crisis, and the Covid pandemic, have brought new urgency to a broad array of questions in this field.

The Philosophy of Money and Finance presents sixteen original chapters providing a comprehensive introduction to this exciting new field. The book is divided into four parts, covering metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, and political philosophy. Within each part, questions that are central to the topic are presented and discussed by leading scholars. The essays are written in a clear and straightforward manner and without presupposing any background in either philosophy or finance.

Joakim Sandberg is Professor of Practical Philosophy and Director of the Financial Ethics Research Group at University of Gothenburg. He is also Professor of Economics and Finance from a Humanist Perspective at University of Groningen, and Vice Director of the Sustainable Finance Lab which is a collaboration between several Swedish universities and companies. Joakim has led several research projects within the philosophy of money and finance on topics including ethical responsibilities in investment, the ethical and legal duties of financial institutions, consumer attitudes towards sustainable finance, ethical and political aspects of financial crises, ethical aspects of microfinance for the poor, political aspects of cryptocurrencies, and banks' obligations with regard to biodiversity. Lisa Warenski, PhD, is Affiliated Associate Professor of Philosophy at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and Research Associate at University of Connecticut. She works primarily in epistemology. She has published on a priori justification, fallibilism, naturalistic epistemologies, and metanormativity. Her research in applied epistemology focuses on epistemic practices in financial institutions. She is a former corporate credit analyst and loan officer with over eight years' experience working in major money center banks in New York City.

Joakim Sandberg and Lisa Warenski: Introduction
I METAPHYSICS
1: Frank Hindriks: The Social Ontology of Money
2: Asya Passinsky: Cryptocurrency: Commodity or Credit?
3: David G. Dick: How Many People Does It Take to Make a Dollar?
4: Christopher J. Cowton: Truth in Financial Accounting
II EPISTEMOLOGY
5: Lisa Herzog: Are Financial Markets Epistemically Efficient?
6: Conrad Heilmann, Marta Szymanowska, and Melissa Vergara-Fernández: Financial Economics: What Kind of Science Is It?
7: Lisa Warenski: JPMorgan Chase's London Whale Trading Losses: A Tale of Human Fallibility
8: Boudewijn de Bruin: Climate Change and Reflexive Law: The EU Sustainable Finance Action Plan
III ETHICS
9: Adrian Walsh: Is the Pursuit of Money Incompatible with Morality? Some Historical and Philosophical Reflections
10: Kate Padgett Walsh and Nolan Pithan: Virtue Theory and the Ethics of Finance
11: Richard Endörfer: On the Wrongfulness of Bank Contributions to Financial Crises
12: Aaron James: Money in the Social Contract
IV POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
13: Marco Meyer: Credit and Distributive Justice
14: Joshua Preiss: Freedom and Financial Market Reform
15: Peter Dietsch, Clément Fontan, Jérémie Dion, and François Claveau: Green Central Banking
16: Joakim Sandberg and Lars Lindblom: Bitcoins Left and Right: A Normative Assessment of a Digital Currency

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo Two black-and-white illustrations
Verlagsort Oxford
Sprache englisch
Maße 160 x 240 mm
Gewicht 652 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik
Wirtschaft Allgemeines / Lexika
Wirtschaft Volkswirtschaftslehre
ISBN-10 0-19-289880-9 / 0192898809
ISBN-13 978-0-19-289880-7 / 9780192898807
Zustand Neuware
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