Open AccessDoes Finance Benefit Society?
Author(s) -
Luigi Zingales
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
ssrn electronic journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1556-5068
DOI - 10.2139/ssrn.2585194
Subject(s) - cognitive dissonance , point (geometry) , finance , perception , economics , positive economics , psychology , social psychology , geometry , mathematics , neuroscience
Academics’ view of the benefits of finance vastly exceeds societal perception. This dissonance is at least partly explained by an under-appreciation by academia of how, without proper rules, finance can easily degenerate into a rent-seeking activity. I outline what finance academics can do, from a research point of view and from an educational point of view, to promote good finance and minimize the bad.
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