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Credibility and reliability of counter-partners are the most important features required for the efficient functioning of financial markets. Violating these requirements is an important aspect of the operational risk, posed by the human factor – both internal (managers, employees) and external (customers, shareholders, competitors, supervisors). Therefore, having a limited impact on the behaviour of outside persons, the financial institutions formulate high standards towards their own personnel. It concerns formal qualifications and professional experience, as well as specific personality traits and appropriate behaviour in various situations. These standards are specified in numerous recent ethics codes – documents formulating the socalled ‘corporate governance best practices’ in internal and external relations to other people. The aim of this paper is to draw attention to the fact that some of these standards generate in praxis a number of dilemmas or even conflict situations, when there appears a question of to what extent the application of a given rule does not breach other rules. Theoretically, corporate governance practices should be internally consistent. However, everyday experience brings such a multitude of real situations, diverse human characters or individual reactions that there appears a need for a sensible compromise between values of equal importance which, in some cases, prove contradicting.
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Omawiana książka jest polskim wydaniem pracy Paula H. Dembinskiego pt. "Finance: Servant or Deceiver? Financialization at the Crossroads" (tłumaczenie z języka francuskiego: K. Cook, Palgrave Macmillan 2009). P.H. Dembinski opisuje wpływ rozwijających się w ostatnich kilku dekadach rynków finansowych na codzienne życie. Proces zwiększającego się udziału finansów w życiu społecznym jest przedstawiony w kontekście zmian, które zachodziły w życiu ostatnich pokoleń po zakończeniu II wojny światowej. Książka stanowi wnikliwie podsumowanie rosnącej roli finansów we współczesnym świecie i opisuje siły mające wpływ na znaczenie finansów w codziennym życiu i porządku ekonomicznym oraz wskazuje podmioty i procesy przyczyniające się do ekspansji finansów wraz z towarzyszącym jej „przymusem maksymalizacji efektywności”. Zdaniem autora, w związku z postępującym procesem nazywanym „ufinansowieniem” otaczającego nas świata spłycają się relacje międzyludzkie, przestajemy sobie nawzajem ufać, a nasze działanie jest nastawione na maksymalizację własnych korzyści, często wyłącznie w wymiarze materialnym. P.H. Dembinski analizuje patologie systemu finansowego, proponuje też środki zaradcze, które mogą przywrócić finansom ich ważną rolę w sferze życia politycznego i społecznego.
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The book is the Polish language edition of Paul H. Dembinski’s work published under the English title "Finance: Servant or Deceiver? Financialization at the Crossroads" (transl. from French by K. Cook, Palgrave Macmillan 2009). The author describes current human relationships shaped by the financial and market model. The relationships are based on calculation and mistrust, and tend to be short-term and impersonal. Finance is far more important today than it was thirty years ago. This practical and conceptual process may be called “financialisation”, a process which has transformed our economy and society by increasingly organising them around the pursuit of financial efficiency. The author spent years analysing the forces of the financialised economy that currently affect us so profoundly. The anatomy of today’s financial market model, carried along the lines of the systemic approach, is followed by a thorough analysis of its many deficiencies and pathologies. P. H. Dembinski provides clear and workable suggestions on what should be decided in order to reverse the recent trend toward financialisation both in the economic and socio-political sphere.
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