FINANCE PROFESSIONALS IN THE FINANCIAL CRISIS: VALUES, FAIRNESS, AND CULTURE

Meir Statman

Finance professionals have expressed their views on values, fairness, and culture in the great debate about the global financial crisis and its aftermath. Yet, their positions remain precarious because they stand accused of instigating the crisis, because their views on values, fairness, and culture are not widely shared in society, and because they fail to persuade that their work has social benefits.