“Fixing the money meme: How it limits our freedom and life choices”

LaRae LongReforming Global Finance, Sustainability News, Articles by Hazel Henderson, Latest Headlines

4 November 2020, Hazel Henderson Today the money meme rules our lives and interactions in most societies on Earth Today the money meme rules our lives and interactions in most societies on Earth. How did this happen? Economists analyze money-based markets. Trading is innate in human behavior. Karl Polanyi describes …

“THE PROMISE & PERILS OF MEDIOCRACIES“

LaRae LongSRI/ESG News, Global Citizen, Sustainability News, Trendspotting, Sustainability Research Group, Articles by Hazel Henderson, Latest Headlines

By Hazel Henderson   ©2020 Hazel Henderson We humans have evolved a new form of governance beyond our machine age democracies: toward radical still unruly participatory mediocracies in our Information Age, as I first described in 1964 and in “Mediocracies and Their Attention Economies“. The early promise of television foreseen by Canadian …

“MARKETS’ GROWING PROBLEM TWINS: ADVERTISING and TRADING“

LaRae LongReforming Global Finance, Trendspotting, Articles by Hazel Henderson, Beyond GDP, Ethical Markets Review, Information Technology Issues, Latest Headlines

©2019 Hazel Henderson Markets are ubiquitous in all human societies.  Since earliest times, when they were conducted using shells, wampum, cattle, or in rituals and potlatches, markets evolved using metal coins, silver and gold, then paper, government-issued fiat and now morphing into today’s crypto currencies.  Today, two familiar offspring of markets: advertising and trading have …

“CASTE: The Origins of Our Discontent“

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Book Review “CASTE: The Origins of Our Discontent“, by Isabel Wilkerson, Random House, NY, 2020 by Hazel Henderson ©2020 Hazel Henderson The ultimate testimony to a writer’s art is in creating a book breaking new ground, deeply-researched and voluminously-documented, which also finds deep resonance in the reader’s heart.  Author, sociologist Isabel …

“STEERING SOCIETIES BEYOND GDP to SDGs”: By Hazel Henderson

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©2020 Hazel Henderson The simmering debate has now exploded about whether GDP the ubiquitous index, is a correct measure of overall progress, but still used by governments, financial markets, mass media, companies, and everyone else. Our Ethical Markets global ”Beyond GDP“ surveys with GlobeScan conducted since 2007, still find an average …

Book Review: “China the Bubble That Never Pops & The Future of Humanity”

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Book Reviews “China the Bubble That Never Pops” by Thomas Orlik, Oxford University Press (2020) “The Future of Humanity: Global Civilization and China’s Rejuvenation” by Zhouying JIN, Intellect Ltd (2019)  © Hazel Henderson 2020 Author of “China: The Bubble That Never Pops” (2020), Thomas Orlik, as Bloomberg’s Chief Asia Economist …