By Hazel Henderson ©2020 Hazel Henderson The US 2020 election illustrated once again that independent voters are tired of the two-party red or blue duopoly. Like European voters they are beyond left and right and ahead with new visions of the future. Old memes and battles between capitalism and …
“Personal Reflections on Exposing the Myths Of Money”
by Hazel Henderson ©2020 Hazel Henderson Today the money meme rules our lives and social interactions in most societies on Earth. How did this happen? I studied all the economics textbooks of every perspective from the Austrian “laissez-faire” market fundamentalists to Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations, (1776) and his earlier …
“Fixing the money meme: How it limits our freedom and life choices”
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“
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 …
The Politics of Production: Mining in the Crosshairs
Published by Wall Street International Magazine 4 OCTOBER 2020, HAZEL HENDERSON Mining the Earth We humans, having populated every part of Earth’s surface and visited the Moon, now are perched atop the planet’s food chain. We are learning from this perilous position but hastening the extinction of all other species …
“PANDEMIC PRIORITY: DAILY FREE TESTS FOR ALL!”
By Hazel Henderson ©Hazel Henderson Revelations on the abject failure of the USA of the Trump administration, including the verbatim tapes of Robert Woodward‘s interviews in “RAGE” (2020), show the necessity for coordinated government policy, leadership and collective action. In the global spread of Covid-19, those countries with these priorities, …
“MARKETS’ GROWING PROBLEM TWINS: ADVERTISING and TRADING“
©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“
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
©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”
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 …