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Most people use money almost every day, and financial assets have become so important to modern life that they determine our fate both as individuals and as societies. Yet we seldom stop to think about what all of this means, how it works, and how it ought to work. How can a small piece of paper in your wallet have value? How can so much power be vested in the numbers that roll across bankers' computer screens? What role should financial assets and financial institutions play in our lives and in society?
The Philosophy of Money and Finance seeks to answer these types of questions by taking a look "under the hood" to examine the nature of money and the normative foundations of finance. Although philosophical theorizing about money and finance dates back to antiquity, the topic has only recently emerged as a central research focus. Economic globalization, technological innovation, the events of the 2008 financial crisis, and the Covid pandemic have brought new urgency to a broad array of questions in this field.
This book brings together sixteen original chapters that provide a comprehensive introduction to this exciting new field. It is divided into four parts, covering metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, and political philosophy. Within each part, questions that are central to the topic are presented and discussed by leading scholars. The chapters are written in a clear and straightforward manner and without presupposing any background in either philosophy or finance.
Contents
Joakim Sandberg and Lisa Warenski: Introduction
I METAPHYSICS
1: Frank Hindriks: The Social Ontology of Money
2: Asya Passinsky: Cryptocurrency: Commodity or Credit?
3: David G. Dick: How Many People Does It Take to Make a Dollar?
4: Christopher J. Cowton: Truth in Financial Accounting
II EPISTEMOLOGY
5: Lisa Herzog: Are Financial Markets Epistemically Efficient?
6: Conrad Heilmann, Marta Szymanowska, and Melissa Vergara-Fernández: Financial Economics: What Kind of Science Is It?
7: Lisa Warenski: JPMorgan Chase's London Whale Trading Losses: A Tale of Human Fallibility
8: Boudewijn de Bruin: Climate Change and Reflexive Law: The EU Sustainable Finance Action Plan
III ETHICS
9: Adrian Walsh: Is the Pursuit of Money Incompatible with Morality? Some Historical and Philosophical Reflections
10: Kate Padgett Walsh and Nolan Pithan: Virtue Theory and the Ethics of Finance
11: Richard Endörfer: On the Wrongfulness of Bank Contributions to Financial Crises
12: Aaron James: Money in the Social Contract
IV POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
13: Marco Meyer: Credit and Distributive Justice
14: Joshua Preiss: Freedom and Financial Market Reform
15: Peter Dietsch, Clément Fontan, Jérémie Dion, and François Claveau: Green Central Banking
16: Joakim Sandberg and Lars Lindblom: Bitcoins Left and Right: A Normative Assessment of a Digital Currency
