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Ecological Money and Finance

Exploring Sustainable Monetary and Financial Systems

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Editors:
  1. Thomas Lagoarde-Segot

    1. KEDGE Business School and SDSN France, Talence, France

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  • Includes learning objectives to focus reader and aid revision
  • Contains practical guidance for implementing the Sustainable Development Agenda
  • Connects economic and financial theory with social science issues

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Table of contents (24 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxxvi
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  2. Exploring Sustainable Monetary Systems

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Reality, the Economy, and Economics

      • Thomas Lagoarde-Segot
      Pages 3-34

    3. Capitalism, Markets and Organizations

      • Thomas Lagoarde-Segot, Laurence Le Poder
      Pages 35-58

    4. What Is Money?

      • Raphaël Didier, Thomas Lagoarde-Segot
      Pages 59-87

    5. Exploring Monetary Systems

      • Raphaël Didier, Thomas Lagoarde-Segot
      Pages 89-122

    6. Endogenous Money, Liquidity Preference and Interest Rates

      • Thomas Lagoarde-Segot
      Pages 123-161

    7. The Macroeconomy and the Monetary Circuit

      • Thomas Lagoarde-Segot
      Pages 163-200

    8. A Simple Ecological Monetary Macroeconomic Model

      • Thomas Lagoarde-Segot
      Pages 201-224

    9. Trade, Capital Flows and the Balance of Payments

      • Thomas Lagoarde-Segot
      Pages 225-260

    10. Global Imbalances and the International Financial Architecture

      • Raphaël Didier, Thomas Lagoarde-Segot
      Pages 261-292

    11. Exchange Rates and International Finance

      • Thomas Lagoarde-Segot
      Pages 293-331

    12. Understanding Financial Markets

      • David Bourghelle
      Pages 333-378

    13. The Finance-Climate Nexus

      • Laurence Scialom
      Pages 379-406

    14. Finance Through a Social Science Lens

      • Yamina Tadjeddine
      Pages 407-440

  3. Exploring Sustainable Financial Systems

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 441-441
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    2. Corporate Governance: Shareholders, Employees, and Stakeholders

      • Nicolas Aubert, Xavier Hollandts
      Pages 443-484

    3. Responsibility, Ownership, and the Role of Shareholders

      • Rachelle Belinga, Blanche Segrestin
      Pages 485-509

    4. Financialization, the Private Equity Industry and LBOs

      • Isabelle Chambost
      Pages 511-545

    5. Crowdsourcing: Citizen Participation in Finance

      • Thibault Cuénoud
      Pages 547-569
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About this book

This book provides a detailed overview of ecological money and finance. The functioning and development of the monetary and financial systems are analysed in relation to sustainability constraints to highlight the actions required to meet the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda. Empirical case studies are utilized to give insight into the failure of the traditional financial system, with ways in which they can be overcome also considered. This book adopts a pluralist perspective to revisit the foundations of financial and monetary economics from a sustainability perspective, and examines the economic and financial instruments that can be used to combat ecological challenges. It will be relevant to students and researchers interested in ecological economics and sustainable finance.



Reviews

“Our new age of sustainable development calls for a new age of economics and finance textbooks as well.  Bravo to the contributors to this exciting and pioneering book, demonstrating important new ways to re-think the financial system and its ethical foundations to align with the Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Climate Agreement.”—Jeffrey D. Sachs, President of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network, University Professor at Columbia University.


"This textbook and the philosophy underlying its creation represents an integrated approach to putting nature and humanity at the heart of economics and finance. Erudite, complex without being overly opaque, and most of all challenging, it should become a keystone text as we move forward towards reclaiming economics and finance as anthropocentric social sciences."—Brian Lucey, Professor of Finance, Trinity College Dublin, University of Dublin.


“Many economists still dream of an economic world that, following natural laws, would spontaneously converge towards a general market equilibrium, if we let it. The time for dreaming has given way to the nightmares of financial crises, growing social inequality around the world and global warming that leaves us no choice but to act. This book deals with the reality of how the economy works, a much more complex and uncertain world, where money and finance can justify other policies. It opens the way to understanding the challenges of the 21st century”.—Edwin Le Heron, Professor of Economics, Sciences Po Bordeaux - Centre Émile Durkheim CNRS 5116.


“Rethinking money and debt through the prism of the common good rather than guilt, defending a truly sustainable approach to finance, reconsidering the crushing weight of short-term profitability in financial models, this book tackles with seriousness and competence the renewal of economic thought so that it can no longer be an obstacle but a help in confronting the great challenges of the 21st century, starting with climate change. This book is an essential contribution to the development of humanist and ecological economic thought. It is written by high quality researchers from the French branch of the SDSN, gathered around the talented Thomas Lagoarde-Segot."—Nicolas Dufrêne, Director of the Institut Rousseau.


Editors and Affiliations

  • KEDGE Business School and SDSN France, Talence, France

    Thomas Lagoarde-Segot

About the editor

Thomas Lagoarde-Segot is Professor of Economics at KEDGE Business School and Director of the Sustainable Finance Commission at SDSN France.



Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Ecological Money and Finance

  • Book Subtitle: Exploring Sustainable Monetary and Financial Systems

  • Editors: Thomas Lagoarde-Segot

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-14232-1

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-14231-4Published: 15 April 2023

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-14234-5Published: 15 April 2024

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-14232-1Published: 13 April 2023

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXXVI, 791

  • Number of Illustrations: 182 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Environmental Economics, Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics, Sustainable Development

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