Discussing ethics applied to finance can become a trivial and selfjustifying task if left to the practical men, or a task with no connection to reality, if performed by philosophers. This book, however, turns out to be an exciting piece of work, useful, provocative, full of ideas and suggestions, as experts in ethics discuss specific issues related to the financial institutions and markets, with the men and women that carry out the daily practice in such institutions and markets, as well as with scholars of economics and finance. Thus, the book covers everything from daily subjects to issues of a deeper nature, using a simple and clear language with solid foundations in economics and ethics, from a necessarily plural and open perspective.

Inhalt

1: The Treatment of Ethical Problems in Financial Institutions and Markets.- 2: Ethics and Regulation in Financial Institutions and Markets.- 3: Social and Institutional Responsibility in Banking.- 4: On the Social Responsibility of Banking.- 5: Ethics in the Management of Financial Institutions.- 6: Ethics in Financial Institutions.- 7: Ethical Issues in Financial Markets: The American Experience.- 8: Comment on Patricia H. Werhane.- 9: Comment on Patricia H. Werhane.- 10: The Ethics of Banking On the Ethical Economy of the Credit and Capital Market, of Speculation and Insider Trading in the German Experience.- 11: Comment on Peter Koslowski and Bettina Löhnert: Rules of Action for Banking: the German Experience.- 12: Ethical Behaviour in Banking: A General Equilibrium View.- 13: The Structure of the German Banking System and its Ethical Implications.- List of Authors.