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

- Institution: Gresham College
- Speaker: Professor Kenneth Costa
- Year: 2009
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Business and management, Philosophy
- Source: [Gresham College](https://www.gresham.ac.uk/watch-now/servant-master-roots-excess-rebooting-servers)
- Licence: [Educational use (Gresham College's terms)](https://www.gresham.ac.uk/terms-and-conditions)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

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.

## Lectures

1. [From Servant to Master - Roots of Excess: Rebooting the servers](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/servant-master-roots-excess-rebooting-servers/319b6ab6e9f5) (YouTube)