Escolar Documentos
Profissional Documentos
Cultura Documentos
By ROBERT J. SHILLER*
to
advance
the
Good
Society
entails
institutions.
The
Good
Society
is
human
of
riskless
securities
that
is
information-acquisition-insensitive,
that
is,
retained
knowledgeable
by
issuers
or
sold
to
regulation, we have
to
understand
the
the
opportunities
In
short,
for
our
obfuscation,
students
for
have
to
body
of
research
has
been
practice.1
atomistic,
To
purely
selfish,
behavior.
reciprocity.
Lippman P. 376
by
ending
suggests
protecting
from
mention
managed
American
poorly
and
financial
innovation,
or
appear generally
explosive
dynamic
feedback loops.
See for example Case Shiller and Thompson, Foote et al. and
Gorton.
of another.
The Islamic tradition seems to suggest
quite a different, and apparently, to western
includes,
restrictions
problems.6
addition
that
to
would
multitudes
hinder
of
complex
in
concern
against
trading
on
superior
share
revealing
generously
traditions.
successful
speculators
information
do
and
not
some
rabbinical
4
5
Matthew 22:39
Matthew 19:21
Kuran, p. 439.
interpretations
forbids
transaction.7
against
the
lifestyle
wealth
accumulation
of
some
that
wealthy
some
avid
Levine p. 155.
Finance
is
barely
that
mentioned
there
are
in
most
professional
is
often
conveyed
within
these
organizations by the norms as to what is offlimits to discuss, or what are assumed patterns
of professional behavior. Much of this is
nearly invisible to outsiders: it needs to be
made more visible.
The teaching of finance might as well
focus more on the philanthropic side of the
financial professions. The apparently selfish
and irreligious speculative activity that we see
can be offset by the other activities that
What
Have
They
Been
Markets,
Brookings
Papers
on
Backed
Securities
Insensitivity,
and
unpublished
Journal
of
Economic
2005
43(7),
pp.
897-921