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Responsible Investment Around the World
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Responsible Investment Around the World: Finance after the Great Reset
BY
JULIA M. PUASCHUNDER
Columbia University, USA
United Kingdom – North America – Japan – India – Malaysia – China
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First edition 2023
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Contents
| 1. Introduction | 1 |
| 2. Responsibility | 9 |
| 2.1. Foundations | 10 |
| 2.1.1. Philosophical Foundations | 10 |
| 2.1.2. Economic Foundations | 13 |
| 2.1.3. Leadership Foundations | 14 |
| 2.1.4. Behavioral Foundations | 16 |
| 2.2. Responsibility Within Markets | 27 |
| 2.3. Corporate Social Responsibility | 31 |
| 2.3.1. The Value of CSR | 36 |
| 2.3.2. International Differences | 39 |
| 2.3.3. Global Governance | 44 |
| 2.3.4. Public Private Partnerships | 46 |
| 2.3.5. CSR as a Multi-stakeholder Management Means | 48 |
| 2.3.6. The UNGC | 49 |
| 2.3.7. COVID-19 Pandemic External Shock | 52 |
| 2.3.8. COVID-19 Induced Inequality | 54 |
| 2.3.9. Corporate Social Justice in the Aftermath of the COVID-19 Pandemic | 57 |
| 2.4. Socially Responsible Investment | 60 |
| 2.4.1. Forms | 62 |
| 2.4.2. Stakeholders | 66 |
| 2.4.3. Emergence | 67 |
| 2.4.4. Historical Background | 70 |
| 2.4.5. International Nuances | 72 |
| 2.4.6. 2008 World Financial Crisis | 76 |
| 2.4.7. Economic Impact of COVID-19 | 77 |
| 2.4.8. COVID-19 New Finance Order | 79 |
| 2.4.9. Inequality in the Socio-economic Fallout of COVID-19 | 83 |
| 2.4.10. Finance Performance versus Real Economy Constraints Gap | 85 |
| 2.4.11. Social Volatility and Affective Fallout Propensities Spread | 87 |
| 2.4.12. Inflation | 92 |
| 2.4.13. Interest Rate | 97 |
| 2.4.14. Responsible Finance: Targeted Rescue, Recovery and Relief Aid | 99 |
| 2.4.15. Urban–Local–Regional and National Focus | 100 |
| 2.4.16. Global and Future-oriented Beneficiaries Focus | 101 |
| 2.4.17. Institutional Framework | 103 |
| 2.4.18. Finance after the Great Reset | 119 |
| 2.4.19. Political Divestiture | 121 |
| 2.4.20. Positive-screened SRI Ventures of the Future | 141 |
| 3. Discussion and Future Prospect | 161 |
| 4. Conclusion | 183 |
| References | 195 |
| Index | 233 |
