John Kay, is a visiting professor of economics at the London School of Economics and a fellow of St John’s College, Oxford University. He is a director of several public companies and contributes a weekly column to the Financial Times. Kay is the author of nine previously published books and coauthor of The British Tax System with Mervyn King. John Kay lives in London.
A Financial Times Book of the Year, 2015
An Economist Best Book of the Year, 2015
A Bloomberg Best Book of the Year, 2015
The finance sector of Western economies is too large and attracts too many of the smartest college graduates. Financialization over the past three decades has created a structure that lacks resilience and supports absurd volumes of trading. The finance sector devotes too little attention to the search for new investment opportunities and the stewardship of existing ones, and far too much to secondary-market dealing in existing assets. Regulation has contributed more to the problems than the solutions.
Why? What is finance for? John Kay, with wide practical and academic experience in the world of finance, understands the operation of the financial sector better than most. He believes in good banks and effective asset managers, but good banks and effective asset managers are not what he sees.
In a dazzling and revelatory tour of the financial world as it has emerged from the wreckage of the 2008 crisis, Kay does not flinch in his criticism: we do need some of the things that Citigroup and Goldman Sachs do, but we do not need Citigroup and Goldman to do them. And many of the things done by Citigroup and Goldman do not need to be done at all. The finance sector needs to be reminded of its primary purpose: to manage other people s money for the benefit of businesses and households. It is an aberration when the some of the finest mathematical and scientific minds are tasked with devising algorithms for the sole purpose of exploiting the weakness of other algorithms for computerized trading in securities. To travel further down that road leads to ruin.
發表於2024-11-04
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圖書標籤: 金融 經濟學 Finance 金融史 經濟學人2015書單 英文原版 英文 金融化
開篇讀起來晦澀難懂,適應作者節奏後,發現有大量repetitive的段落(為嘛編輯不好好整理)。就內容來說,深度剖析finacialization,多方麵看待2008年經濟危機。
評分深入批判financialization,抓住金融的本質功能(總支付清算、資本分配、長時段財富管理)而逐一揭露當代金融係統與其因盡使命之間的脫節之處(對實體經濟並沒有貢獻的高速、大數額交易、金融衍生品的泛濫、高復雜度與高相互依賴而導緻的係統性風險、用它人的錢賭博然後坐享高收益的賭場資本主義文化)與政府監管的完全失敗(太多太具體的監管反而催生更復雜的交易以及監管套利、中央銀行救濟導緻大銀行沒有承擔應盡責任等),字裏行間順便黑一把市場萬能論以及貨幣政策萬能論者。可惜寫得有點論,前半太dense後半太repetitive,而且給齣的藥方很大程度上是要迴歸到80年代乃至50年代以前那種一副典型英國鄉紳形象、陪客戶聊天打高爾夫球的“社區”銀行傢,有點無語。
評分開篇讀起來晦澀難懂,適應作者節奏後,發現有大量repetitive的段落(為嘛編輯不好好整理)。就內容來說,深度剖析finacialization,多方麵看待2008年經濟危機。
評分早就說過,英國雖然也是世界的金融中心,但是這方麵的書籍,比美國的少瞭很多很多,但是這邊的作者,真的深度要高很多,無不印證著美國那邊是多麼的機械和沒有哲學深度
評分誠意之作
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