Colleagues, my interview with Cary Krosinsky on his new book Sustainable Investing: Revolutions in Theory and Practice (with Sophie Purdom), is available on our Sustainable Business Fridays podcast here, and excerpted in greenBiz.com below. Its a great book— highly recommended. –Eban The Sustainable MBA An investor discusses driving change by doing well Eban Goodstein and Katie …
Review Of 2 Books: ‘Doughnut Economics’ And ‘Another Economy Is Possible’
Jun. 1, 2017 5:56 AM ET Hazel Henderson Summary Critiques of the failures of economics as a discipline. Authors Kate Raworth in Doughnut Economics and Manuel Castells in Another Economy Is Possible provide penetrating critiques highly relevant to today’s political debates. Alternatives and practices in both markets and commons to …
Book Review: Building the New American Economy and The SIMPOL Solution
Book Review Building the New American Economy: Smart, Fair and Sustainable Jeffrey Sachs, Columbia University Press New York, 2017 The SIMPOL Solution John Bunzl and Nick Duffell Peter Owen Publishers, London 23017 By Hazel Henderson © 2017 These two books separately offer strategies for the ongoing global transition from the …
Book Review: Thank You For Being Late-Author, Thomas Friedman
FARRAR, STRAUS AND GIROUX, NEW YORK, 2016 By Hazel Henderson © 2017 Thank You for Being Late: is Thomas Friedman’s best book yet. Friedman combines his breathless optimism and journalistic personal style with a much more advanced critique of globalization than in his earlier books. He emphasizes how the …
Review Of 3 Books: Homo Deus, The Undoing Project, Reinventing Prosperity
By Hazel Henderson Copyright © 2017 Hazel Henderson. All Rights Reserved. Review of Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow, Yuval Noah Harari, explores brain science and the future of human cognition. Review of The Undoing Project, Michael Lewis, looks at how cognitive biases invalidate economic models. Review of Reinventing …
Book Review: “Chaos Monkeys” and “The Nature of Value”
Book Review: “Chaos Monkeys” and “The Nature of Value” By Hazel Henderson © 2016 THE NATURE OF VALUE by Nick Gogerty, Columbia University Press, NY, 2014 CHAOS MONKEYS by Antonio Garcia Martinez, Harper-Collins, NY, 2016 Today’s global terrain of change and transformation needs a wider lens to encompass its deeper …
Book Review: Quest for Exceptional Leadership-Mirage to Reality by Ravi Chaudhry
We are happy to announce the release of the 2nd Edition in 2016! We are proud that author Ravi Chaudhry is a member of our Advisory Board. Read editor-in-chief Hazel Henderson’s full review from 2011 on SeekingAlpha.com. Quest for Exceptional Leadership: Mirage to Reality by Ravi Chaudhry Indian business leader …
THE EURO: How a Common Currency Threatens the Future of Europe by Joseph E. Stiglitz, Norton, 2016.
THE EURO: How a Common Currency Threatens the Future of Europe by Joseph E. Stiglitz, Norton, 2016. Review by Hazel Henderso© for SeekingAlpha.com Political economist Joseph Stiglitz, winner of the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economics (often confused with a Nobel) finally takes the gloves off in his critique of …
AMERICAN AMNESIA by Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson, Simon and Schuster, 2016
AMERICAN AMNESIA by Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson, Simon and Schuster, 2016 Review by Hazel Henderson Deep analysis of US political gridlock, influence of business and financial lobbying, campaign funding. Misses some of the forces for positive change, e.g., ethical investing movements, divesting from fossil fuels, ASBC, One%, SVN, …
Article – Invest to Impact: ‘Making Money Matter’ in an Era of Crisis
Invest to Impact: ‘Making Money Matter’ in an Era of Crisis The integrity of our culture and the safety of our planet are waning under money’s perpetuation of greed. Money is largely regarded as the measure of personal wealth and the pathway to material possession with little regard for its …