Value(s): Building a Better World for All

✍ Scribed by Mark Carney

• Publisher: Signal
• Year: 2021
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 629
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

A bold and urgent argument by economist and former bank governor Mark Carney on the radical, foundational change that is required if we are to build an economy and society based not on market values but on human values. Our world is full of fault lines--growing inequality in income and opportunity; systemic racism; health and economic crises from a global pandemic; mistrust of experts; the existential threat of climate change; deep threats to employment in a digital economy with robotics on the rise. These fundamental problems and others like them, argues Mark Carney, stem from a common crisis in values. Drawing on the turmoil of the past decade, Mark Carney shows how "market economies" have evolved into "market societies" where price determines the value of everything. When we think about what we, as individuals, value most highly, we might list fairness, health, the protection of our rights, economic security from poverty, the preservation of natural diversity, resources, and beauty. The tragedy is, these things that we hold dearest are too often the casualties of our twenty-first century world, where they ought to be our bedrock. In this profoundly important new book, Mark Carney offers a vision of a more humane society and a practical manifesto for getting there. How we reform our infrastructure to make things better and fairer is at the heart of every chapter, with outlines of wholly new ideas that can restructure society and enshrine our human values at the core of all that we build for our children and grandchildren.

✦ Table of Contents

Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Introduction
Part I – The Rise of the Market Society
1 Perspectives of Value – Objective Value
2 Perspectives of Value – Subjective Value
3 Money, Gold and the Age of Consent
4 From Magna Carta to Modern Money
5 The Future of Money
6 The Market Society and the Value of Nothing
Part II – Three Crises of Value(s)
7 The Global Financial Crisis: A World Unmoored
8 Creating a Simpler, Safer, Fairer Financial System
9 The Covid Crisis: How We Got Here
10 Covid Crisis: Fallout, Recovery and Renaissance?
11 The Climate Crisis
12 Breaking the Tragedy of the Horizon
Part III – Reclaiming Our Values
13 Values-Based Leadership
14 How Purposeful Companies Create Value
15 Investing for Value(s)
16 How Canada Can Build Value for All
Conclusion: Humility
Appendix
List of Figures
Notes
Acknowledgements

✦ Subjects

Economics,Social Values, Climate Change, Central Banking, Gold, Financial crisis, man-in-the-street