Some men wrest a living from nature and with their hands; that is called work
Some men wrest a living from those who wrest a living from nature and with their hands; that is called trade
Some men wrest a living from those who wrest a living from those who wrest a living from nature and with their hands; that is called finance.
(Epigram from 19th century Great Britain)
Dit citaat wordt met instemming aangehaald op de eerste pagina van "Enough. True Measures of Money, Business, and Life" (Wiley, 2008) door John C. Bogle, oprichter en voormalig CEO van the Vanguard Group of Mutual Funds, 's werelds eerste index mutual fund, met een belegd vermogen van meer dan 1 biljoen US Dollar.
Dit boek is niet alleen zeer kritisch over de financial services industry en de ontoelaatbare hoogte van de cost of finance, maar ook over wanstaltige scheefgroei in de corporate world en in de huidige vrije markt economie.
Zie voor een bespreking:
Some men wrest a living from those who wrest a living from nature and with their hands; that is called trade
Some men wrest a living from those who wrest a living from those who wrest a living from nature and with their hands; that is called finance.
(Epigram from 19th century Great Britain)
Dit citaat wordt met instemming aangehaald op de eerste pagina van "Enough. True Measures of Money, Business, and Life" (Wiley, 2008) door John C. Bogle, oprichter en voormalig CEO van the Vanguard Group of Mutual Funds, 's werelds eerste index mutual fund, met een belegd vermogen van meer dan 1 biljoen US Dollar.
Dit boek is niet alleen zeer kritisch over de financial services industry en de ontoelaatbare hoogte van de cost of finance, maar ook over wanstaltige scheefgroei in de corporate world en in de huidige vrije markt economie.
Zie voor een bespreking:
http://www.thetimes.co.za/Columnists/Business/Article.aspx?id=1035344
In een recent artikel merkt Bogle in dezelfde trant op:
Relying on Adam Smith's "invisible hand", through which our self-interest advances the interests of society, we have depended on the marketplace and competition to create prosperity and well-being. But self-interest got out of hand. It created a bottom-line society in which success is measured in monetary terms. Dollars became the coin of the new realm. Unchecked market forces overwhelmed traditional standards of professional conduct, developed over centuries.
[...]
The malfeasance and misjudgments by our corporate, financial and government leaders, declining ethical standards, and the failure of our new agency society reflect a failure of capitalism. Free-market champion and former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan shares my view. That failure, he said in testimony to Congress last October, "was a flaw in the model that I perceived as the critical functioning structure that defines how the world works." As one journalist observed, "that's a hell of a big thing to find a flaw in."
[Met dank voor deze tip aan oud Boer & Croon collega, Jacques Wintermans]
In een recent artikel merkt Bogle in dezelfde trant op:
Relying on Adam Smith's "invisible hand", through which our self-interest advances the interests of society, we have depended on the marketplace and competition to create prosperity and well-being. But self-interest got out of hand. It created a bottom-line society in which success is measured in monetary terms. Dollars became the coin of the new realm. Unchecked market forces overwhelmed traditional standards of professional conduct, developed over centuries.
[...]
The malfeasance and misjudgments by our corporate, financial and government leaders, declining ethical standards, and the failure of our new agency society reflect a failure of capitalism. Free-market champion and former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan shares my view. That failure, he said in testimony to Congress last October, "was a flaw in the model that I perceived as the critical functioning structure that defines how the world works." As one journalist observed, "that's a hell of a big thing to find a flaw in."
[Met dank voor deze tip aan oud Boer & Croon collega, Jacques Wintermans]
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