Culture, humanities & social science

Just Money: Mission-Driven Banks and the Future of Finance

Name: Just Money: Mission-Driven Banks and the Future of Finance
Author: Katrin Kaufer

By Katrin Kaufer, director of Just Money at the MIT Community Innovators Lab (CoLab) in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning, and Lillian Steponaitis, CoLab research affiliate

MIT Press · 2021

In this book, Kaufer and Steponaitis take readers on a global tour of financial institutions that use finance as a force for good. In so doing, they remind us that money, if used intentionally and equitably, can be just money - a tool that serves nature, human development, and social justice.

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From Summer 2021 recommended reading from MIT (MIT News).

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