This magisterial book is a tour throughout the world and our human history, examining the persistent puzzle of why some countries successfully industrialized and others failed. MIT economist Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson, a political scientist and economist at Harvard, go beyond economics and its centuries of hypothesizing about …
Overview from Green Transition Scoreboard® 2012: From Expanding Cleantech Sectors To Emerging Trends In Biomimicry
In Q3 2011, the Green Transition Scoreboard® totaled private investments in green sectors since 2007 worldwide at $2.4 trillion. Our new total of $3,306,051,439,680 confirms our view that this transition is on track to reach the $10 trillion we project by 2020. Click to read more (PDF)
Scientific Realities Puncturing Bubble Finance
Scientific Realities Puncturing Bubble Finance By Hazel Henderson © 2012 For Interpress Service, distributed as “Science Can Restrain Runaway Finance” The urgent need for a paradigm shift in economics and its financial and mathematical models has been widely-recognized for decades. Recently, Credit Suisse research as well as complexity theorists at …
The Ethics of Job Creation: Let’s Get Real!
By Hazel Henderson In the U.S., conceptual and political confusion over the issue of jobs was evidenced by wide disparities in claims over job creation, for example in the XL Pipeline case. Many politicians still claim that “the government can’t create jobs; only the private sector creates jobs.” The Government’s …
Honoring President Vaclav Havel
By Hazel Henderson Philosopher-poet-playwright and global citizen, Václav Havel was the freedom fighter who led the Czech people to independence from Soviet Russian occupation. He became their first president in 1989 after the peaceful “velvet revolution” swept this brave man into power with massive support and the slogan “Havel to …
Global Finance Lost In Cyberspace!
By Hazel Henderson © 2011 For InterPress Service The robot rabbit of finance – high-speed trading, cloud computing – has outrun the tortoise of government oversight and control. For years, I have documented how often science and technology leap ahead of politicians and bureaucrats. Usually, citizens and their groups sound …
Transforming Finance To Grow Green Sustainable Economies
By Hazel Henderson (*) SAINT AUGUSTINE, FLORIDA, Oct (IPS) “We recognize finance as part of the global commons,” affirms the Transforming Finance statement, signed by financial professionals worldwide critical of today’s casino capital markets. Financialization has produced the global debt bubble. Needed now are write-offs and haircuts to bond-holders and …
Transforming Finance to Grow Green Sustainable Economies
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VICE Film The Third Industrial Revolution
By Hazel Henderson ©2011 “The Third Industrial Revolution: How Lateral Power is Transforming Energy, the Economy, and the World,” by Jeremy Rifkin, Palgrave Macmillan 2011 Jeremy Rifkin is one of the most prominent Western public intellectuals – matched by the best in the world: Vandana Shiva and Pavan Sukhdev in …
Green Sectors Expanding into Trillions of Dollars
Small and intermediate enterprises are joining large ones to boost Green Industry’s footprint By Rosalinda Sanquiche As part of the Green Economy series While mainstream media, economists and general opinion still designate the Green Economy as “emerging” and assume green investments are riskier or provide lower returns than other investments, …