Boatright Ethics in Finance

3. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-118-78933-9
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 296 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Foundations of Business Ethics

The third edition of Ethics in Finance presents an authoritative and wide-ranging examination of the major ethical issues in finance. This new edition has been expanded and thoroughly updated with extensive coverage of the recent financial crisis and the very latest developments within the financial world.
* Substantially updated new edition with nearly 40% new material, including sections on credit cards, mortgage lending, microfinance, risk management, derivatives, and securitization
* Includes coverage and references to the recent financial crisis and the very latest developments within the financial world
* Focuses on the practical issues that confront finance professionals, policy makers, and consumers of financial services
* Cites examples of the scandals that have shaken public confidence in Wall Street and world financial markets
* Includes numerous examples throughout to illustrate the concepts and issues described within the text

Autoren/Hrsg.

Boatright, John R.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface vii
Acknowledgments ix
Abbreviations x
1 Finance Ethics: An Overview 1
The Need for Ethics in Finance 2
The Field of Finance Ethics 13
2 Fundamentals of Finance Ethics 26
A Framework for Ethics 27
Agents, Fiduciaries, and Professionals 40
Conflict of Interest 45
3 Ethics and the Retail Customer 63
Sales Practices 64
Credit Cards 78
Mortgage Lending 96
Arbitration 108
4 Ethics in Investment 120
Mutual Funds 121
Relationship Investing 141
Socially Responsible Investing 148
Microfinance 155
5 Ethics in Financial Markets 171
Fairness in Markets 172
Insider Trading 182
Hostile Takeovers 189
Financial Engineering 201
6 Ethics in Financial Management 223
The Corporate Objective 224
Risk Management 234
Ethics of Bankruptcy 243
Corporate Governance 254
Index 273

Über Autor(innen)

John R. Boatright is the Raymond C. Baumhart, S.J.,Professor of Business Ethics in the Quinlan School of Business atLoyola Universi-ty Chicago, and Director of the BaumhartCenter for Social Enterprise and Responsibility. He is the authorof the book Ethics and the Conduct of Business (2012) andthe editor of Finance Ethics: Critical Issues in Theory andPractice (Wiley, 2010). He is a past President of theSociety for Business Ethics, and he serves on the editorial boardsof Business Ethics Quarterly, Journal of Business Ethics,and Business and Society Review. He received his PhD inphilosophy from the University of Chicago.