Just Money: Banking as if Society Mattered

Course
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English
48 h
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  • Free Access
  • Fee-based Certificate
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  • 16 Sequences
  • Introductive Level

Course details

Syllabus

  • The core principles of just banking
  • How finance can be used as a tool for social and environmental change
  • The impact of different forms of banking on societal well-being
  • Ongoing challenges for just banks
  • The future of just banking and financial technologies

Prerequisite

None

Instructors

J. Phillip Thompson
Urban planner and political scientist

Lily Steponaitis
Post-Graduate Fellow, MIT Community Innovators Lab
MIT

Katrin Kaeufer
Research Fellow, MIT Community Innovators Lab
MIT

Calvin Thompson
Strategic Development at Presencing Institute/Innovation Fellow
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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