The Purpose of Capital (eBook)

Elements of Impact, Financial Flows, and Natural Being

Jed Emerson (Autor)

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2018
346 Seiten
Blended Value Group (Verlag)
978-1-7324531-2-8 (ISBN)

Infos

A unique exploration of how investors may act with deeper consideration of the meaning of money, The Purpose of Capital: Elements of Impact, Financial Flows and Personal Being, explores the historic roots of our understanding of capital, investing and wealth management, connecting how we think about finance with how we think about our lives, World and personal purpose.Many books tell investors how to invest for maximum financial returns; others seek to tell investors how to invest for financial return with the generation of positive social and environmental impact. The Purpose of Capital takes the reader behind the ';how' to explore the ';Why' of investing. The Purpose of Capital explores:*; Our focus on investing as finance alone has taken us down the wrong pathand how those investors seeking to ';do well and do good' have fallen prey to the notion financial return is the main driver for creating impact in the world.*; By focusing primarily upon returns for investors we fall short of our potential to invest capital for the benefit of a broader set of stakeholdersincluding not only the environment but our own potential to use our capital to realize greater personal development for our selves.*; The roots of our current inability to invest for total returns is an historic struggle, connecting us with centuries of reflection in a variety of cultures and traditionsthe lessons from which may benefit investors today.*; The Purpose of Capital details how the true purpose of capital is not simply to make more capital, but rather to function as a fuel for individual freedom in the context of community and Earth.Having produced seven books on the ';how' of social entrepreneurship and impact investing, Emerson now turns his attention to placing investing within an historic and philosophical context, grounding investing within a more complete consideration of why we should invest in system change which, in the end, offers the potential for transforming ourselves as investors and as people.

Inhalt

TABLE OF CONTENTSPart One :  WHERE WE CAME FROM
Chapter One Why Care About the Purpose of Capital?..........................1
Chapter Two On Impact: From Ignorant to Mutual................................36
Cha pter Three Humanity in Context of Self:
Key Stages of Our Journey....................................................................52Part Two : REFLECTIONS ON HOW WE SHAPED THEPRESENT CHARACTER OF CAPITAL
Chapter Four Bookends of History:
The Axial Age, The Anthropocene and Art........................................70
Chapter Five Value Liberation From The Trap of Dualism.................94
Chapter Six Nature is Not the Other.................................................118
Chapter Seven
On Truth: The Rediscovery of Experience as Evidence...................138
Chapter Eight: Demystifying Time and Money..................................166
Chapter Nine: Our Faith in Finance...................................................182Part Three : BEING PRESENT IN THE CREATION OF POSSIBLE PASTS AND POTENTIAL FUTURES
Chapter Ten On Scale and The Impact Commons............................198
Chapter Eleven The Gift of Fire:
The Purpose of Capital as Freedom..................................................214
Chapter Twelve Living Impact:
Purpose as New Progress, Presence as Our Value Manifest........... 244
Afterword The Reading Life: Limitations of Self..................................268ADDENDUM
Acknowledgments...............................................................................277
Author’s Note.......................................................................................279
On Words and Images.........................................................................281
My Best Books ....................................................................................283
Crumbs on A Path: A Partial Bibliography............................................290
Six Lists to Live By................................................................................301
Two Talks in Autumn.............................................................................307
Add itional Selected Writings By Emerson
and Various Collaborators..................................................................... 308
Image Credits.........................................................................................309
Endnotes............................................................................................... 311
Index......................................................................................................337
About the Author....................................................................................345
The Purpose of Capital Project..............................................................346

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 24.9.2018
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Wirtschaftsrecht
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Finanzierung
• Schlagworte: Impact Investing • Meaning of Money • Social economics • sustainable economics • Sustainable Finance • Wealth Planning • Wealth Religion
• ISBN-10: 1-7324531-2-8 / 1732453128
• ISBN-13: 978-1-7324531-2-8 / 9781732453128