L ikeDiogenes, who, according to legend, roamedAthens with a lantern in search of an honest man, JC de Swaan has sought to find virtuous people in finance. But unlike Diogenes, who apparently failed in his search, the author of Seeking Virtue in Finance finds such people in abundance. Not that they dominate in the offices and on the trading floors of Wall Street—the popular image of rapacious wolves is safe—but there is a sufficient number of exemplars of virtue in the financial world, as de Swaan documents, to fill a good-sized book. Indeed, the most prominent feature of this book is the plethora of profiles of people who exhibit integrity and contribute significantly to society. As a set of profiles of exceptional individuals, along with accounts of a few miscreants, this book excels in its stated aim of demonstrating to young people— such as de Swaan’s Princeton University undergraduates—that a career in finance can be a noble calling. In this respect, Seeking Virtue in Finance is similar to Mihir Desai’s book The Wisdom of Finance: Discovering Humanity in the World of Risk and Return, which contains his upbeatmessage toHarvard finance students, and also to Finance and the Good Society by Yale University professor Robert Shiller. Apparently, finance faculty at Ivy League schools feel a need to expand the vision of their charges before their inevitable entry into the financial world. The author explicitly states that the bookwaswritten for his students to demonstrate how a finance professional “can pursue a viable career while benefitting society and upholding humanistic values” (ix). This goal is pursuedmainly through “the stories of remarkable individuals” (4), which constitute the bulk of the book. In addition to these stories, the book contains a fourfold “framework,” which is presented variously as principles to be followed, as dimensions for assessing professional conduct, and as an organizational structure for the book’s four chapters. The four parts of this framework are 1) the treatment of customers (serve customers’ interests faithfully), 2) the creation of social wealth (create genuine wealth rather than merely extracting it from others), 3) humanistic leadership in organizations (treat colleagues with dignity, support them,

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在金融中寻求美德：在冲突行业中为社会做贡献，作者：JC de Swaan。剑桥：剑桥大学出版社，2020 年。246 页。

与传说中的第欧根尼（Diogenes）一样，他提着灯笼在雅典漫游以寻找一个诚实的人，JC de Swaan 一直在寻找金融界的贤人。但与显然在搜索中失败的第欧根尼不同，《在金融中寻求美德》的作者发现了很多这样的人。并不是说他们在华尔街的办公室和交易大厅中占主导地位——贪婪的狼的流行形象是安全的——但正如德斯旺的文件那样，金融界有足够多的美德典范来填补一个良好的——大小的书。事实上，这本书最突出的特点是展示了正直并为社会做出重大贡献的人的大量个人资料。作为一组杰出人物的个人资料，以及一些恶棍的描述，这本书的出色之处在于它向年轻人（例如德斯旺的普林斯顿大学本科生）展示了从事金融业可以是一项崇高的使命。在这方面，《在金融中寻求美德》与米希尔·德赛 (Mihir Desai) 的著作《金融的智慧：在风险与回报的世界中发现人性》相似，其中包含了他对哈佛金融学生以及耶鲁大学教授罗伯特对金融与良好社会的乐观信息席勒。显然，常春藤盟校的金融教员觉得有必要在他们不可避免地进入金融世界之前扩大他们的收费视野。作者明确指出，这本书是为他的学生写的，以展示金融专业人士如何“在造福社会和维护人文价值观的同时追求可行的职业”（ix）。这一目标主要通过构成本书主体的“杰出人物的故事”（4）来实现。除了这些故事之外，本书还包含一个四重“框架”，以不同的方式呈现为要遵循的原则、评估职业行为的维度以及本书四章的组织结构。该框架的四个部分是1）对待客户（忠实地为客户利益服务），2）创造社会财富（创造真正的财富，而不是仅仅从别人那里榨取财富），3）组织中的人文领导（对待同事）有尊严地支持他们，”它以不同的方式呈现为要遵循的原则，作为评估职业行为的维度，以及作为本书四章的组织结构。该框架的四个部分是1）对待客户（忠实地为客户利益服务），2）创造社会财富（创造真正的财富，而不是仅仅从别人那里榨取财富），3）组织中的人文领导（对待同事）有尊严地支持他们，”它以不同的方式呈现为要遵循的原则，作为评估职业行为的维度，以及作为本书四章的组织结构。该框架的四个部分是1）对待客户（忠实地为客户利益服务），2）创造社会财富（创造真正的财富，而不是仅仅从别人那里榨取财富），3）组织中的人文领导（对待同事）有尊严地支持他们，