Democracy Café

Can we discover, or rediscover, our humanity in the world of finance? Are there stores of essential wisdom embedded at their core in financial matters? Is there even a nobility to finance, and of a sort that can nurture the ascent of open societies? So asserts Mihir Desai, professor of finance at Harvard Business School and Harvard Law School, and author of the intriguing bestseller 'The Wisdom of Finance: Discovering Humanity in the World of Risk and Return.' Listen in as Professor Desai makes an eloquent case for why those immersed in the orbit of finance should be imbued with more humanity (and more of the humanities, which are entwined with the enterprise)... -- and conversely, how and why it is far from a stretch to maintain that most all of us can benefit from teasing out the humanity that can be plumbed from finance, if we know how and where to look. As a scholar and street philosopher who also is an Investment Advisor Representative for Martin Capital Advisors (MartinCapital.com), I found