Necessary Evil: How to Fix Finance by Saving Human Rights (Introduction)

Abstract

Necessary Evil is a penetrating investigation of the incredible impact the financial system has on human rights. The machinations of Wall Street can make or break people’s lives on Main Street or No Street, and yet today we have lost control of finance, and finance has lost our trust. Necessary Evil explains how to reform finance in ways that will salvage its legitimacy by making finance a friend to human rights, not their enemy.

Keywords: finance, banks, financial regulation, global financial crisis, human rights, development

JEL Classification: K10, K30, G21