ABOUT SUSTAINABLE CAPITALISM (Dr. Ivo Pezzuto)

ABOUT SUSTAINABLE CAPITALISM (Source:

"Predictable and Avoidable. Repairing Economic

Dislocation and Preventing the Recurrence of

Crisis")

"A SOLID AND PURE CAPITALISM REQUIRES THE

EXISTENCE OF A HEALTHY, WELL-BALANCED, AND

MATURE DEMOCRACY; A WIDESPREAD SOCIAL

CONSCIOUSNESS; PHILANTHROPY; PATRONAGE;

REDUCED INEQUALITY; A TRULY PRODUCTIVE AND

COMPETITIVE FREE MARKET ECONOMY AND

SUSTAINABLE GLOBALIZATION; INNOVATION AND LONG-

TERM ORIENTED GROWTH STRATEGIES; AND A

THRIVING ENTREPRENEURIAL VERVE (i.e. WITHOUT

RECKLESS DEREGULATION; REGULATORY LOOPHOLES;

CENTRAL BANKS AND REGULATORY CAPTURE;

INADEGUATE GOVERNANCE AND OVERSIGHT;

CRIPPLING BUREAUCRACY AND CORPORATISM;

DUMPING AND UNFAIR GLOBAL COMPETITION; AND

OPPORTUNISTIC USE OF DECEPTIVE BUSINESS

PRACTICES AIMED AT MAXIMIZING SHORT-TERMISM,

CRONYISM AND REVOLVING DOORS)" (Pezzuto, 2013)

Dr. Ivo Pezzuto

Global Market Analyst and Professor of Economics, Business Policy, and

International Management

https://www.linkedin.com/in/drpezzutoivo

https://twitter.com/IvoPezzuto

Predictable and Avoidable Repairing Economic

Dislocation and Preventing the Recurrence of Crisis

Sustainable Capitalism

https://www.linkedin.com/in/drpezzutoivo

https://twitter.com/IvoPezzuto

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Book Reviews

Predictable and Avoidable: Repairing Economic

Dislocation and Preventing the Recurrence of Crisis. By

Ivo Pezzuto. Gower; 438 pages

‘This insightful book written by Ivo Pezzuto, a professor of business

administration and a renowned expert on the global financial crisis, gives

an unbiased and fulsome analysis of the 2007 financial crisis and the

global economic dislocation that followed. Mr Pezzuto brings his work to

life by augmenting its technicalities with personal interviews with industry

experts and by interspersing his take on the mechanisms that contributed

to the crisis with its cultural, ethical and human impact. By exposing the

causes of the crisis, and putting forward ideas about the changes needed

in the banking and finance industry and in the regulatory structures

governing them, the author has written a valuable work of interest to

academics, industry experts and students alike.’

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Book Reviews

Predictable and Avoidable

‘Research Essential’ !

Predictable and Avoidable has been classified as ‘Research Essential’ by

Baker & Taylor YBP Library Services.

‘In this new Gower book, Professor Dr Ivo Pezzuto offers an independent

and unbiased analysis of the financial crises and one of the first fully

considered expositions of the financial, governance and regulatory reforms

needed for the future. With personal interviews involving selected global

thought leaders and industry experts, the book exposes the root causes

and demonstrates that the crisis we have seen was predictable and should

have been avoidable, and that a recurrence can be avoided, but only if

lessons are learned and the right action taken in relation to the banking

and finance industries and to supervisory frameworks and regulatory

mechanisms.’


Book Reviews

Dr. Antonio Argandoña, Emeritus Professor of IESE

Business School, Spain

‘A complete and detailed explanation of the financial crisis. There are

many popular descriptions of the current financial crisis. There are also

many more or less detailed and rigorous analyses of the causes,

consequences and solutions of the crisis. But when the student, the

teacher or the researcher needs a complete analysis, which includes all

the alternative explanations, a deep presentation of the consequences of

the crisis and an accurate study of the policies that have been adopted,

the number of available books is very limited. Dr Ivo Pezzuto’s Predictable

and Avoidable is one of those rare books that deal with this complex

subject in an affordable and complete way.’


Book Reviews

The book has been classified as 'Relevant Money Laundering and

Fraud Title' by the IMLPO (The Institute of Money Laundering

Prevention Officers) - the networking organisation for the UK's anti-

money laundering and financial crime prevention community.

In 2014 the book has been short-listed by The Chartered Management

Institute (CMI) for the “Management Book of the Year” Award. The

CMI in association with the British Library aim to celebrate the best of

management books published or distributed in the UK, from the most

inspiring to the most useful.

Predictable and Avoidable

‘Relevant Money Laundering and Fraud Title'


Book Reviews

‘Dr Pezzuto’s far-reaching and insightful book on the causes of and

cures for the financial meltdown of the late 2000s is a must read for

anyone who holds a position of trust. In particular, his comprehensive

table on the “Summary of Causes of the Financial Crisis and Actionable

Risk Mitigation Plans” is unparalleled in both form and function.’

John H. Nugent, School of Management, Texas Woman’s

University, USA

‘This exquisite book sheds a light on the facts that led to the biggest

financial crises since the Great Depression. Dr Pezzuto provides the

opportunity to understand the extreme risk taking, the excessive power

of the banks and the regulation failure. By using fact based evidences,

he proves that the biggest financial turbulence of this generation was

preventable.’

Daniela Milanese, Team Leader for Portuguese Service at

Bloomberg, Brazil


Book Reviews

‘This book impressively fits a number of puzzle pieces of crisis analysis

right into a comprehensive structure of ethics and values that will be

necessary to shape a world without too much “pollution”, and it shows

that through the financial crisis also such a thing as “financial pollution“

became apparent. Highly recommendable at a specifically personal

level for leaders of all ranks.’

Peter H. Hoffmann, CEO, Evolta - Evolving Executive Careers /

Consulting and Development, and Prof. em. SMCU, Austria

‘This remarkable and insightful book shows the reader what really went

wrong, and why, in the global financial crisis. A fact-based and unbiased

perspective, robustly coupled with analytical insights, “connects the

dots” of all the events that led to the financial meltdown and its

aftermath. Based on the author’s own deductive reasoning, his

extensive research and his seasoned managerial experience, the book

is enriched with valuable “thought-leaders” insights on the crisis and

sound proposals for improved financial regulation.’

Asghar Aghili Dehkordi, Strategy & Business Development

manager at LG Electronics (Goldiran Ind.), Iran


Book Reviews

‘An excellent analysis of the causes of the recent financial crisis. Written

for a wide audience, this timely contribution educates the reader on the

main causes and effects of the recent financial crisis. It is an accurate

and comprehensive treatment of facts that led to the meltdown,

substantiated by the overwhelming evidence of various warnings that

went unheeded, and corroborated by inspiring interviews with academic

and industry experts. Predictable and Avoidable does not limit itself to a

sterile a-posteriori criticism, but describes concrete actions to take to

prevent the occurrence of similar catastrophic events in the future. A

must read!’

Fabio Mercurio, Head of Derivatives Research, Bloomberg LP, New

York, and Adjunct Professor, New York University, USA


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