Can Finance Save the World?: Regaining Power over Money to Serve the Common Good

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National Geographic Books, Jan 30, 2018 - Business & Economics - 288 pages
How to Make Finance a Force for Good

Just as Thomas Piketty offered a sweeping critique and progressive reassessment of capitalism, former World Bank Group chief financial officer Bertrand Badré looks at the destructive role finance played in the global economic crisis of 2007-2008 and offers a bold prescription for making it a force for good. Badré describes how finance can be harnessed to help us solve many of the world's biggest problems--climate change, poverty, infrastructure rebuilding, and more. As he writes, "When controlled and used intelligently, with benevolence and inventiveness, finance can accomplish great things."

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About the author (2018)

Bertrand Badré is CEO and founder of Blue like an Orange Sustainable Capital. Previously, he was managing director of the World Bank; chief financial officer of the World Bank Group; CFO at two of the world's largest banks, Crédit Agricole and Société Générale Group; and a partner of Lazard.

Foreword by Emmanuel Macron, President of the French Republic.

Foreword by Gordon Brown, Former Prime Minister of Great Britain from 2007-2010 and is currently the United Nations Special Envoy for Global Education.

Bibliographic information

TitleCan Finance Save the World?: Regaining Power over Money to Serve the Common Good
AuthorBertrand Badré
ContributorsEmmanuel Macron, Gordon Brown
PublisherNational Geographic Books, 2018
ISBN1523094214, 9781523094219
Length288 pages
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Business & Economics / Economics / Theory
Business & Economics / Finance / General
Business & Economics / International / Economics & Trade
  
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