Academics' view of the benefits of finance vastly exceeds societal perception.This dissonance is at least partly explained by an under-appreciation by academia of how, without proper rules, finance can easily degenerate into a rent-seeking activity.I outline what finance academics can do, from a research point of view and from an educational point of view, to promote good finance and minimize the bad.
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