Finance and the good society

Chief executive officers

Investment managers

Bankers

Investment bankers

Mortgage lenders and securitizers

Traders and market makers

Insurers

Market designers and financial engineers

Derivatives providers

Lawyers and financial advisers

Lobbyists

Regulators

Accountants and auditors

Educators

Public goods financiers

Policy makers in charge of stabilizing the economy

Trustees and nonprofit managers

Philanthropists

Finance, mathematics, and beauty

Categorizing people : financiers versus artists and other idealists

An impulse for risk taking

An impulse for conventionality and familiarity

Debt and leverage

Some unfortunate incentives to sleaziness inherent in finance

The significance of financial speculation

Speculative bubbles and their costs to society

Inequality and injustice

Problems with philanthropy

The dispersal of ownership of capital

The great illusion : then and now.