Ecological Money and Finance

Thomas Lagoarde-Segot is Professor of Economics at KEDGE Business School and Director of the Sustainable Finance Commission at SDSN France.

1. Introduction.- 2. Economy and reality.- 3. Economic systems and enterprises.- 4. Corporate governance: shareholders, employees, stakeholders.- 5. Sustainability, ownership and the role of shareholders.- 6. Understanding money.- 7. Understanding the monetary system.- 8. Balance sheets and economic circuit.- 9. An ecological macroeconomic model.- 10. International trade and the balance of payments.- 11. Macroeconomic equilibrium and the international financial architecture.- 12. The monetary system and the determination of interest rates.- 13. The finance-climate nexus.- 14. Understanding financial markets.- 15. Finance through a social science lens.- 16. Rules and regulation critique of the neoclassical theory.- 17. Asset management and regulatory issues.- 18. Asset management and sustainability.- 19. Crowdsourcing.- 20. Crowdlending.- 21. Social impact bonds.- 22. Mutual banks.