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Just as Thomas Piketty offered a sweeping critique and progressive reassessment of capitalism, former World Bank Group chief financial officer Bertrand Badre looks at the destructive role finance played in the global economic crisis of 2007-2008 and offers a bold prescription for making it a force for good. Badre describes how finance can be harnessed to help us solve many of the world's biggest problems-climate change, poverty, infrastructure rebuilding, and more. As he puts it, When controlled and used intelligently, with benevolence and inventiveness, finance can accomplish great things.

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Bertrand Badre is the CEO and founder of Blue Like an Orange Sustainable Capital and the former chief financial officer of World Bank Group. His areas of expertise include banking, capital markets, the World Bank Group, and international and development finance, including regulation and crisis management. His research focuses on developing the Billions to Trillions agenda using capital markets, insurance transformation, and infrastructure investment to spur development. Wayne Shepherd is a veteran radio broadcaster with forty-five years of experience as a voice talent, an interviewer, and a radio host of several nationally syndicated radio programs, including the weekly interview program First Person. In addition to his career in radio, he has also been narrating audiobooks for many years with dozens of titles to his credit. Based in Chicago, he serves on the boards of The Far East Broadcasting Company and Mission Eurasia.

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