Good Value: Reflections on Money, Morality and an Uncertain World
- ISBN-10
- 0802197965
- ISBN-13
- 9780802197962
- Category
- Business & Economics
- Pages
- 256
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2011-02-08
- Publisher
- Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
- Author
- Stephen Green
Description
Can one be both an ethical person and an effective businessperson? Stephen Green, an ordained priest and the chairman of HSBC, thinks so. In Good Value, Green retraces the history of the global economy and its financial systems, and shows that while the marketplace has delivered huge advantages to humanity, it has also abandoned over a billion people to extreme poverty, encouraged overconsumption and debt, and ravaged the environment. How do we reconcile the demands of capitalism with both the common good and our own spiritual and psychological needs as individuals? To answer that, and some of the most vexing questions of our age, Green takes us on a lively and erudite journey through history, looking for lessons in the work of economists and philosophers, businessmen and poets, theologians and novelists, playwrights and political scientists. An essential business book by a man who is uniquely qualified to write it, Good Value is a timely and persuasive analysis of the most pressing financial and moral questions we face.
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Other editions
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- 2009
- 207 pages
- Paperback
- Allen Lane
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