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Financial Ethics

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  • © 1999

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Authors:
  1. Andrew M. McCosh

    1. The University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. The Problem Domain

    1. The Jobs of the Capital Markets, and the People who Do Them

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      Pages 7-28

    2. A Focus on the Problem We Are Addressing

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      Pages 29-34

  3. Guidance from the Religions

    1. Plan and Introduction to the Religious Guidance Chapters

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      Pages 35-38

    2. The Jewish Tradition

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      Pages 39-46

    3. The Christian Tradition

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      Pages 47-60

    4. The Islamic Tradition

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      Pages 61-72

    5. The Buddhist Tradition

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      Pages 73-86

    6. An Aggregation of the Commands from the Religions

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      Pages 87-94

    7. The Remaining Task. The Commands we have Yet to Fulfil

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      Pages 95-108

  4. Testing, then Marketing, the Ethical Command

    1. Some Financial Transactions for Testing

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      Pages 109-118

    2. Political and Organisational Tools for Gaining Acceptance for an Ethical Command

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      Pages 119-145

    3. Consequences and Conclusions

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      Pages 147-152

    4. Epilogue:- An Action Plan

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      Pages 153-156

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 157-164
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About this book

Financial Ethics presents an exploration of this relatively new subject. The book will follow two different trails, which eventually are brought together. The first trail is an exploration in Chapters One and Two of the general nature of the finance industry, of the institutions which make it up, of the people in it and the pressures they are under. The first trail also examines the nature of the reward system in the finance industry.
The second trail is an examination of the guidance people can obtain from four of the world's great religions on exactly how people ought to behave when engaged in the financial industry.
The second part of the book is contained in Chapters Three to Nine. If people propose to advise the financiers to be ethical, it is important to know what is meant by this, and to call upon reliable sources and why they are using the four particular religious sources chosen. The next four chapters extract business and financial commands and one or two important interpretive writings from Judaism, Christianity, Islam and Buddhism.
Part Three of the book (Chapters Ten to Thirteen) is a distillation of the concepts from the religions, an application of the concepts to the modern financial world, and a discussion of the various organizational tools which might be used to put them into operation.

Authors and Affiliations

  • The University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

    Andrew M. McCosh

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Financial Ethics

  • Authors: Andrew M. McCosh

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-5039-6

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1999

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-8556-1Published: 31 August 1999

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4613-7290-5Published: 02 November 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4615-5039-6Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 164

  • Topics: Business Ethics, Ethics, Finance, general, Management

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