Capital Failure

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Adam Smith's 'invisible hand' relied on the self-interest of individuals to produce good outcomes. Economists' belief in efficient markets took this idea further by assuming that all individuals are selfish. This belief underpinned financial deregulation, and the theories on incentives and performance which supported it. However, although Adam Smith argued that although individuals may be self-interested, he argued that they also have other-regarding motivations, including a desire for the approbation of others. This book argues that the trust-intensive nature of financial services makes it essential to cultivate such other-regarding motivations, and it provides proposals on how this might be done. Trustworthiness in the financial services industry was eroded by deregulation and by the changes to industry structure which followed. Incentive structures encouraged managers to disguise risky products as yielding high returns, and regulation failed to curb this risk-taking, rent-seeking behaviour. The book makes a number of proposals for reforms of governance, and of legal and regulatory arrangements, to address these issues. The proposals seek to harness values and norms that would reinforce 'other-regarding' behaviour, so that the firms and individuals in the financial services act in a more trustworthy manner. Four requirements are identified which together might secure more strongly trustworthy behaviour: the definition of obligations, the identification of responsibilities, the creation of mechanisms which encourage trustworthiness, and the holding to account of those involved in an appropriate manner. Financial reforms at present lack sufficient focus on these requirements, and the book proposes a range of further actions for specific parts of the financial industry.

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Genre : Business & Economics
Author : Nicholas Morris
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Release : 2014-08-07
File : 433 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780191020773


Bradstreet S Weekly

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Genre : Commerce
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Release : 1893
File : 852 Pages
ISBN-13 : CORNELL:31924087740662


The Insurance Year Book

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Genre : Insurance
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Release : 1889
File : 980 Pages
ISBN-13 : NYPL:33433082318407


Journal Of The Royal Agricultural Society Of England

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Genre : Agriculture
Author : Royal Agricultural Society of England
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Release : 1891
File : 908 Pages
ISBN-13 : SRLF:A0013817770


Insurance World Pocket Fire Insurance Chart For 1887

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Genre : Fire insurance
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Release : 1887
File : 80 Pages
ISBN-13 : COLUMBIA:CU56674481


The Commercial Financial Chronicle And Hunt S Merchants Magazine

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Genre : Banks and banking
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Release : 1877
File : 850 Pages
ISBN-13 : IND:30000089452191


The American Stationer

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Genre : Stationery trade
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Release : 1896
File : 1136 Pages
ISBN-13 : NYPL:33433090917398


Economic Legislation Of All The States

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Genre : Civil service
Author : Allen Ripley Foote
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Release : 1892
File : 1390 Pages
ISBN-13 : NYPL:33433023673167


The Social Organism And Its Natural Laws

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Genre : Economics
Author : Henry Rawie
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Release : 1926
File : 336 Pages
ISBN-13 : UIUC:30112062771107


The American And English Encyclopedia Of Law

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Genre : Law
Author : John Houston Merrill
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Release : 1896
File : 1196 Pages
ISBN-13 : HARVARD:32044093015626