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From Servant to Master - Roots of Excess: Rebooting the servers

Professor Kenneth Costa · Gresham College

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About

The market economy is a good servant and a bad master. How did finance become not a means to a end but an end in itself? The City's roots lie in serving the growth in commerce and trade. Did we put on the wrong trade to become masters? Are incentives, bonus or malus, carrot or stick? Were incentives to blame for the excess that so blurred commercial judgements.

The talk

  1. From Servant to Master - Roots of Excess: Rebooting the servers 2009-12-15 · YouTube

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Institution
Gresham College
Speaker
Professor Kenneth Costa
Year
2009
Level
For everyone
Language
English
Subjects
Business and management, Philosophy
Source
Gresham College
Licence
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