Good Value: Reflections on Money, Morality and an Uncertain World

Can one be both an ethical person and an effective business-person? Stephen Green, an ordained priest and chairman of HSBC, thinks so. In Good Value, Green retraces the history of the global economy and its financial systems, from early government granaries in Alexandria to the Italian banks that flourished during the Renaissance, and argues that despite its recent lapses, the global financial industry is more necessary than ever. Also necessary, however, are good businesspeople who look to...