Grossly Distorted Picture: GDP Still Misleading Governments, Banks and Investors by Omitting Asset Accounts By Hazel Henderson, for CSRWire Talkback The GDP results, however revised for the final quarter of 2010, will remain unreliable in charting recovery and progress in Europe, the USA and most other countries. GDP is now …
GDP Scorecards Still Misleading Governments, Banks and Investors as New Survey Shows Disconnect. January 2011
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Five Questions about SRI – Expert Interview with Hazel Henderson
Five Questions about SRI – Weekly Expert Interview with Hazel Henderson, Editor-in-Chief, Ethical Markets Media LLC By Geoffrey Mazullo on December 3, 2010 Each week Emerging Markets ESG publishes an interview entitled, “Five Questions about SRI.” The interview features a practitioner’s insights about SRI in emerging markets and through Emerging Markets ESG shares this …
REAL ECONOMIES AND THE ILLUSIONS OF ABSTRACTION
World Affairs: The Journal of International Issues, Vol. 15 No. 1 Winter Hazel Henderson © 2010 The yawning gap between the real world and the discipline and profession of economics has never been wider. The ever-increasing abstractions in finance and its models based on “efficient markets” and “rational actors”: capital …
Financial Transaction Taxes: The Commonsense Approach by Hazel Henderson
For Responsible Investor, October 19th, 2010 Despite the special pleadings of high frequency traders (HFT), the SEC’s initial report on the May 6, 2010, “flash crash” shows them as bogus. “Providing liquidity” claims for HFT turned out to be false – liquidity disappeared when needed. Price discovery was hampered by …
New Markets and New Commons by Hazel Henderson
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Markets v. Commons by Hazel Henderson
My comments are part of a conversation with my colleagues on the Advisory Board of the Capital Institute, founded by our Ethical Markets Advisory Board member John Fullerton, about the limits of markets in moving humans toward sustainable forms of living. – Hazel Henderson, Ed. By Hazel Henderson © 2010 …
A Presidency in Peril by Robert Kuttner, Chelsea Green 2010
“Preventing a Double-Dip Requires a New Team in Washington” Reviewed by Hazel Henderson © 2010 In my review of Robert Kuttner’s earlier Obama’s Challenge (2008), I shared his concern that Obama’s administration could become one of continuity – with little of the change the USA needs. In this earlier volume, …
THE FUTURE OF FINANCE: And The Theory That Underpins It, London School of Economics Press, UK, 2010
Review by Hazel Henderson. This compilation of papers by Britain’s best and brightest addresses the structural weaknesses and questions the social utility of the global financial system. These deeper issues are not addressed by the new US 843-page Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act signed by President Obama. …
Advice for Bill Gates, Warren Buffet on Giving Money
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