Financial Times: Why aren’t we trying to create a financial sector for all?

Published on January 31, 2022

David Pitt-Watson, Research Fellow at Cambridge Judge Business School, is quoted in the Financial Times article.

We are “simply not having [the] debate about the purpose of the finance industry”, says David Pitt-Watson, who teaches the subject at Cambridge. “Part of its purpose is to provide a very important utility … We would certainly regulate electricity and water so that everyone has access to them. Shouldn’t similar considerations apply to finance?” (subs)

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