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Authors: Jon Entine
ISBN-13: 9780844742182, ISBN-10: 084474218X
Format: Paperback
Publisher: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
Date Published: September 2005
Edition: (Non-applicable)

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Author Biography: Jon Entine

Book Synopsis

This book shows that pension funds and mutual funds that screen investments according to social and ethical preferences frequently harm those people and causes (for example, the poor and the environment) that they are designed to help.

Table of Contents

1The politicization of public investments1
2Social investing : pension plans should just say "no"13
3Why social investing threatens public pension funds, charitable trusts, and the Social Security trust fund56
4The strategic use of socially responsible investing81

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