The Field of Social Investment
The Field of Social Investment
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USDThis book is concerned with the theory and practice of social investment as a profession. It offers a conceptual foundation for investment policy and research, and reviews empirical studies supporting new directions in investment policies. It also provides guidelines for trustees, based on the best available knowledge of corporate behaviour, and presents researchers with key hypotheses to follow in gathering data for the evaluation of social investment norms. A unique study, it provides the basis for defining social investment as a field of knowledge.
Reviews & endorsements
"This is a work reflecting much current interest and concern. I've read it with real advantage; so, I am sure, will others who are concerned with corporate government and its social effects." John Kenneth Galbraith, Harvard University
"This work represents an important and comprehensive contribution to a controversial area, and it can admirably serve as a point of entry into the issue for either the practicing manager or the college student." Choice
"The author does a good job of outlining the detailed indicators that social investors should look at in making investment decisions. Certainly this book is must reading for professionals in the field of social investment and is of great interest to social economists as a good example of applied social economics." Review of Social Economy
Product details
April 2011Adobe eBook Reader
9780511872273
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9 b/w illus. 7 tables
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Table of Contents
- Preface
- Part I. The Idea of Social Investment:
- 1. The meaning of social investment
- 2. The activity of social investment
- 3. A theory of social investment
- Part II. Social Criteria and Research:
- 4. Social investment in business corporations
- 5. Social investment in industry: a new social policy
- 6. Social research on industrial policy
- 7. Investment in community development
- Part III. Global Social Investment:
- 8. International investment
- 9. Social development in the Third World
- Epilogue: social investment as a self-correcting movement in the market system
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Name index
- Subject index.
