Posted November 4, 2009 “Other News” is a personal initiative seeking to provide information that should be in the media but is not, because of commercial criteria. It welcomes contributions from everybody. Work areas include information on global issues, north-south relations, governance of globalization. The “Other News” motto is a …
A Walled Garden for Capital
New socially responsible trading networks seek to facilitate long-term profitable investment. by Hazel Henderson When the global financial system broke down in 2008, many people realized for the first time that the credibility of large institutions, no matter how well regarded, could turn out to be flawed. Read more…
Changing the Game of Finance
Invited paper for “The World as We Want It to Be” SRI in the Rockies 20th Anniversary, October 25-28, 2009. By Hazel Henderson © 2009 www.hazelhenderson.com Marking the 20th Anniversary of SRI in the Rockies offers more than an opportunity to review the hard-won progress of investors to prove that …
Appreciating Maurice Strong
Hazel Henderson, August 2009 “Maurice Strong is a unique player on the world stage. His career is also improbable and very inspiring, as he followed his own vision for a better world through thick and thin. I found Maurice a wonderful role model and sometimes I was fortunate that he …
Lecturing Birds on Flying, by Pablo Triana, J Wiley, 2009
Review by Hazel Henderson A deeply unsettling insider account of how bogus mathematics overtook finance and was a key contributor to the financial collapse of 2008-2009 and also the 25% losses Wall Street suffered in the crash of 1987. Pablo Triana, like his fellow iconoclastic options trader Nassim Taleb who …
The Looting of America and Bailout Nation: An in-depth review by Hazel Henderson
Bailout Nation by Barry Ritholtz John Wiley (2009) The Looting of America by Les Leopold Chelsea Green (2009) Review by Hazel Henderson Both of these books are excellent accounts of the 2008-2009 financial meltdown – from different and complementary perspectives. Barry Ritholtz is an irreverent Wall Street insider with a …
The Foreign Exchange Transaction Reporting System: Reducing the Risk of Bear Raids on Economies
By Hazel Henderson Published in Policy Innovations: a publication of the Carnegie Council March 18, 2009 Reforming the unregulated global casino must be addressed at the April G-20 summit in London, as I pointed out in a presentation in February. The Communiqué from the November 2008 summit of G-20 leaders …
The Politics of Economics
By Hazel Henderson © April 2009 The death knell for the economics discipline was sounded by Nobelist chemist Frederick Soddy in 1921 (“Mr. Soddy’s Ecological Economy” New York Times April 11, 2009). Why were Soddy’s insights into the fatal flaws of economics buried for almost a century? In my The …
The Limits of Traditional Economics: New Models for Managing A Steady State Economy
by Hazel Henderson Ideas from 1973 to meet today’s economic crisis. Copyright 1973, CFA Institute. Reproduced and republished from the Financial Analysts Journal with permission from CFA Institute. All rights reserved.” Download the article here (PDF) Thelma & Louise on dvd Alexandra’s Project rip Sleepless in Seattle move Chill Prison …
The New Financiers
By Hazel Henderson © 2009 A venture capitalist friend of mine asked me in a recent discussion about the financial meltdown, “who will be the new financiers?”