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Review of Finance and the Good Society, by Robert J. Shiller

The Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics

Tags Money and BanksMoney and Banking

07/30/2014David Howden

Volume 15, No. 4 (Winter 2012)

What defines a "good society" and how can we use finance to achieve it? Robert Shiller takes the former question as settled, and dedicates his new book Finance and the Good Society to the latter: what is wrong with modern finance, and how should it restructured to reach this ideal?

 

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Dr. David Howden is Chair of the Department of Business and Economics, and professor of economics, at Saint Louis University at its Madrid campus. A Fellow of the Mises Institute, he is the author of over 50 scholarly articles and books. His research focuses on the business cycle and fractional-reserve banking.