Professional Authority After the Global Financial Crisis: Defending Mammon in Anglo-America

by Malcolm Campbell-Verduyn

Book Overview

This book challenges amoral views of finance as the leading realm in which mammon - wealth and profit - is pursued with little overt regard for morality. The author details an enhanced ethical emphasis by leading Anglo-American professionals in the aftermath of the 2007-8 global financial crisis. Instead of merely stressing expert knowledge, professionals sought to overcome the alleged impossibility of serving "two masters" - mammon and God - by...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319849832
• ISBN13: 9783319849836
• Release Date: May 2018
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 213 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.8" x 8.3"