Author: Hari Mann and David Pitt-Watson, Purpose of Finance initiative, Pension Investment Corporation

Blog: What is the purpose of finance?

by Hari Mann and David Pitt-Watson, Purpose of Finance initiative, Pension Investment Corporation

So what is the purpose of finance? Try that question over dinner and you will likely get a somewhat cynical reply, about its self-serving nature. Financial crisis after crisis, scandal after scandal have not helped to build a narrative that the finance serves any purpose than to serve itself. [...]

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