Just Money: Banking as if Society Mattered
11.405 · Urban Studies and Planning · Graduate · Spring 2021
Dr. Katrin Käufer, Prof. J. Phillip Thompson
<p>Do you know what your bank does with your money? What is the role of a bank in producing societal well-being?</p> <p>This course looks into banks that operate differently, namely, “just banks" that use capital and finance as a tool to address social and ecological challenges.</p> <p>This course is for anyone who wants to understand the unique role banks play as intermediaries in our economy and how they can leverage that position to produce positive social, environmental, and economic change…
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