Social finance / edited by Alex Nicholls, Rob Paton, and Jed Emerson.

Social finance is a rapidly advancing area of practice, policy and research, with a lot of unanswered questions. What does it amount to? What is it to be 'social' in finance? How do you value assets that offer a social as well as a financial return? This book provides a collection of authoritative e...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Nicholls, Alex (Editor)
Paton, Rob (Editor)
Emerson, Jed (Editor)
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015.
Edition:First Edition.
Subjects:
Social responsibility of business.
Social entrepreneurship > Great Britain > Finance.
Finance > Social aspects.
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Connect to: Table of contents - All users only (Cataloging @ Library of Congress)
Physical Description:xviii, 653 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Social finance : capitalizing social impact / Alex Nicholls and Jed Emerson
  • Social finance : does 'investment' add value? / Geoff Mulgan
  • What should social finance invest in and with whom? / Richard Steinberg
  • Financing social innovation / Dennis R. Young
  • Philanthrocapitalism comes of age / Matthew Bishop and Michael Green
  • Co-operative and mutual finance / Jonathan Michie
  • Microfinance : a field in flux / Nicholas Sabin
  • Venture philanthropy : development, evolution, and scaling around the world / Rob John and Jed Emerson
  • Impact investing : a market in evolution / Anna Oleksiak, Alex Nicholls, and Jed Emerson
  • Measuring social impact / Alex Nicholls, Jeremy Nicholls, and Rob Paton
  • Risk and return in social finance : 'I am the market' / Alex Nicholls and Emma Tomkinson
  • Projection, valuation, and pricing in social finance / Alex Nicholls and Aunnie Patton
  • The Peterborough pilot social impact bond / Alex Nicholls and Emma Tomkinson
  • The roles of government and policy in social finance / Rosemary Addis
  • Public policy for social finance in context / Roger Spear, Rob Paton, and Alex Nicholls
  • Building the social finance infrastructure / Rodney Schwartz, Clare Jones, and Alex Nicholls
  • Crowdfunding in social finance / Othmar M. Lehner
  • Investing for social impact : direct foreign investment and private equity in Africa and South Asia / Peter Hinton and Sweta Penemetsa
  • Islamic finance as social finance / Natalie Schoon
  • Environmental impact investing : co-managing the ecological and economic household / Jacob Harold ... [et al.]
  • Postscript : Is there a co-operative alternative to capitalism? / Dan Gregory.