Social Democracy. The Case For It

Jay OwenReforming Global Finance, SRI/ESG News, Global Citizen, Trendspotting, Advisors' Forum

“We are pleased to publish this OpEd by our advisor, Philip Kotler, the world’s pre-eminent social marketing guru  and co-author of “Activist Brands“( 2018). This current debate about the future of markets, which we believe will not survive unless they become more ethical, transparent and globally responsible, is highly relevant …

The Washington Post: Why is Congress so dumb? We dumped in-house experts, and now lobbyists think for us.

Jay OwenReforming Global Finance, Global Citizen, Trendspotting, Beyond GDP

“Ethical Markets highly recommends this information-packed, insightful review by Congressman Bill Pascrell Jr.  of how the US Congress  literally lost its mind, beginning in 1996! Pascrell shows how the key research agencies were decimated, most notably the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA)  which was shut down, as well as others …

How Artificial Intelligence Is Reshaping Repression

Jay OwenReforming Global Finance, Global Citizen, Trendspotting, Wealth of Networks

“Ethical Markets highly recommends this article “The Road to  Digital Unfreedom” from the Carnegie Endowment, which documents the current use of digital surveillance by autocratic regimes, facilitated by the dangers of mis-use of human-trained machine intelligence (so-called AI) now tracking individuals and groups. Dictatorships are using  big data collection schemes, …

The Bob Graham Center Programs Jan 16 and 17 !!

Jay OwenGlobal Citizen, Trendspotting

“Ethical Markets highly recommends these programs for our friends at the University of Florida and the Bob Graham Center for Public Service. ~Hazel Henderson, Editor“ UPCOMING EVENTS January 2019     Programs are free and open to the public and streamed live on the Bob Graham Center website and Facebook …

7 Charts That Show the World Is Actually Getting Better

Jay OwenGlobal Citizen, Beyond GDP

“While I wrote a glowing review of Hans Rosling’s work in his posthumously published book “FACTFULLNESS“ (2018), we at Ethical Markets  believe that the Chart on money-denominated GDP metric is destructive of social , environmental and other longer-term values, as well as the Earth’s climate. We use the United Nation’s …

Political communication scholar Kathleen Hall Jamieson examines Russian efforts to impact the 2016 election.

Jay OwenGlobal Citizen, Trendspotting, Wealth of Networks

“Ethical markets highly recommends this talk by media expert Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Foundation, which give the best  actual video examples so far, of the various disinformation campaigns by Russia’s  government Internet Research Agency based in St. Petersberg, targeting US citizens to sow dissention, anger and hatred during …