Just Financial Markets?: Finance in a Just Society

Edited by Lisa Herzog

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Abstract: Well-functioning financial markets are crucial for the economic well-being and the justice of contemporary societies. The Great Financial Crisis has shown that a perspective that naively trusts in the self-regulating powers of free markets cannot capture what is at stake in understanding and regulating financial markets. The damage done by the Great Financial Crisis, including its distributive consequences, raises serious questions about the justice of financial markets as we know them. This volume brings together leading scholars from political theory, law, and economics in order to explore the relation between justice and financial markets. Broadening the perspective from a purely economic one to a liberal egalitarian one, the volume explores foundational normative questions about how to conceptualize justice in relation to financial markets, the biases in the legal frameworks of financial markets that produce unjust outcomes, and perspectives of justice on specific institutions and practices in contemporary financial markets. Written in a clear and accessible language, the volume presents analyses of how financial markets (should) function and how the Great Financial Crisis came about, proposals for how the structures of financial markets could be reformed, and analysis of why reform is not happening at the speed that would be desirable from a perspective of justice. Contributors to this volume - Anat Admati, Stanford University. Alan H. Brener, Queen Mary University of London. Rutger Claassen, Utrecht University. Jay Cullen, University of Sheffield. Boudewijn de Bruin, University of Groningen. Peter Dietsch, Universite de Montreal. Lisa Herzog, Technical University Munich. Aaron James, University of California, Irvine. Rosa Maria Lastra, Queen Mary University of London. Seumas Miller, Charles Sturt University, Canberra. Katharina Pistor, Columbia Law School. Mark R. Reiff, Harvard University. Roseanne Russels, Cardiff University. Charlotte Villiers, University of Bristol.

Date: 2017
ISBN: 9780198755661
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