By Hazel Henderson Trump, a master of dominating the daily news cycle, understands that the USA has become a “mediocracy”! Keeping us all guessing on who he’s hiring is drowning out the real story. Democrats and Hillary won nationally by over 2 million votes and the Electoral College doesn’t meet to decide the …
Greening Trump’s Infrastructure Plan
Blog Entry by Justmeans in Finance and SRI Friday, November 18, 2016 – 10:00am Guest blog by Hazel Henderson Surprising most pundits, Trump seems to be a Keynesian. The growing consensus in the US and most countries sees a better chance to shift to fiscal policies, stimulating their economies with …
Private Investments In Green Tech Useful Metric In Tracking Progress For Inclusive Growth
ABSTRACT The Green Transition Scoreboard® (GTS) highlights the fact that private investments are necessary to complement government funds for transitioning to low-carbon economies as pledged by 195 countries and their INDCs at COP21 and the UN’s SDGs in 2015. The first Green Transition Scoreboard was released during the Copenhagen Climate …
Review Of Phishing For Phools By Akerlof And Shiller And Of The End Of Banking By McMillan
Hazel Henderson Summary Hazel Henderson reviews Phishing for Phools and its relevancy to economics. Hazel Henderson reviews End of Banking and its relevancy to economics. Addresses insights and shortcomings of each book as compared to each other. Phishing for Phools: The Economics of Manipulation & Deception by George A. Akerlof …
The Future of Sustainability: Interview with Hazel Henderson
Sustainability Agenda Podcast, September 2016 When it comes to getting a perspective on the future of sustainability, who better to speak to than renowned author, futurist and sustainability pioneer Hazel Henderson. A long-time pioneer promoting the integration of environmental and social considerations into economics and business, Hazel has been a …
Valuing Information v. Money: How Silicon Valley Fell for Wall Street
Invasions into incumbent finance by the FINTECH 100, the some 5,000 blockchain-based Silicon Valley startups and cryptocurrencies continue accelerating due to global interconnectivity. Good reasons why conventional traders and asset-allocators will need to pay close attention, starting with several books, including Don and Alex Tapscott’s Blockchain Revolution (2015). Today’s global …
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 …
Your blog is live on CSRwire Talkback -Artificial Intelligence + Algorithms = Assumptions!
Artificial intelligence (AI) has emerged in the public debate with Deep Mind’s recent win over a champion of the Chinese game GO. AI is all about computers getting better at solving problems formerly thought too difficult which should be left to humans. Since the 1970s, a small group of computer …