Social finance / edited by Alex Nicholls, Rob Paton, and Jed Emerson.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contexts and Debates
1:Social Finance: Does 'Investment' Added Value?, Geoff Mulgan
2:What Should Social Finance Invest In and With Whom?, Richard Steinberg
3:Financing Social Innovation, Dennis R. Young
4:Philanthrocapitalism Comes of Age, Matthew Bishop and Michael Green
The Landscape
5:Co-operative and Mutual Finance, Jonathan Michie
6:Microfinance: A Field in Flux, Nicholas Sabin
7:Venture Philanthropy: Development, Evolution and Scaling Around the World, Rob John and Jed Emerson
8:Impact Investing: A Market In Evolution, Anna Oleksiak, Alex Nicholls and Jed Emerson
Models and Metrics
9:Measuring Social Impact, Alex Nicholls, Jeremy Nicholls and Rob Paton
10:Risk and Return in Social Finance: 'I Am The Market', Alex Nicholls and Emma Tomkinson
11:Projection, Valuation, and Pricing in Social Finance, Alex Nicholls and Aunnie Patton
12:The Peterborough Pilot Social Impact Bond, Alex Nicholls and Emma Tomkinson
Infrustructure
13:The Roles of Government Policy in Social Finance, Rosemary Addis
14:Public Policy for Social Finance in Context, Roger Spear, Rob Paton, and Alex Nicholls
15:Building the Social Finance Infrastructure, Rodney Schwartz, Clare Jones, and Alex Nicholls
Furture Directions
16:Crowdfunding in Social Finance, Othmar M. Lehner
17:Investing for Social Impact: Direct Foreign Investment and Private Equity in Africa and South Asia, Peter Hinton and Sweta Penemetsa
18:Islamic Finance As Social Finance, Natalie Schoon
19:Environmental Impact Investing: Co-Managing the Ecological and Economic Household, Jacob Harold, Joshua Spitzer, Jed Emerson, and Marieke Spence

Social Finance is a rapidly advancing area of practice, policy and research, with alot of unanswered questions.
What does it amount to? What is it to be 'social' in finance? How do you value assets that offer a social as well as a financial return?

This book provides a collection of authoritative essays on these and related topics. The essays embrace the different manifestations of social finance, collate existing research, set out the controversies, offer theoretical insights, and advances, and draw together the ideas of the leading thinkers in the field. Contributors to this volume are leading exponents and practitioners of social finance and leading academics from the main relevant disciplines and fields of study.

This book is the first serious and comprehensive treatment of social finance and as such, will be of interest to academics with research and teaching interests in finance, social enterprise/entrepreneurship, public policy, business economics and international deveopement to name a few. If you want to understand and join in the academic and policy debates, or if you are working in one part of this field and want to understand how the landscape is being rapidly re-shaped, then this is an essential guidebook.