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Capital Failure

Rebuilding Trust in Financial Services

Format: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Oxford, United Kingdom
Published: 29th Sep 2016
Dimensions: w 157mm h 233mm d 23mm
Weight: 648g
ISBN-10: 0198788088
ISBN-13: 9780198788089
Barcode No: 9780198788089
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Synopsis
Adam Smith's 'invisible hand' relied on the self-interest of individuals to produce good outcomes. Economists' belief in efficient markets took this idea further by assuming that all individuals are selfish. This belief underpinned financial deregulation, and the theories on incentives and performance which supported it. However, although Adam Smith argued that although individuals may be self-interested, he argued that they also have other-regarding motivations, including a desire for the approbation of others. This book argues that the trust-intensive nature of financial services makes it essential to cultivate such other-regarding motivations, and it provides proposals on how this might be done. Trustworthiness in the financial services industry was eroded by deregulation and by the changes to industry structure which followed. Incentive structures encouraged managers to disguise risky products as yielding high returns, and regulation failed to curb this risk-taking, rent-seeking behaviour. The book makes a number of proposals for reforms of governance, and of legal and regulatory arrangements, to address these issues. The proposals seek to harness values and norms that would reinforce 'other-regarding' behaviour, so that the firms and individuals in the financial services act in a more trustworthy manner. Four requirements are identified which together might secure more strongly trustworthy behaviour: the definition of obligations, the identification of responsibilities, the creation of mechanisms which encourage trustworthiness, and the holding to account of those involved in an appropriate manner. Financial reforms at present lack sufficient focus on these requirements, and the book proposes a range of further actions for specific parts of the financial industry.

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Trust in the financial services industry is currently at a low ebb. Nicholas Morris and David Vines have gathered together a group of economists, lawyers, philosophers and practitioners to consider what might be done to rebuild trust in this sector. The resulting collection, Capital Failure, provides a wide range of examples of how trust was lost and what might be done to recover it * Mark Hannam, The Times Literary Supplement *