By Hazel Henderson © 2009 Author, President, Ethical Markets Media LLC (USA and Brazil) International Conference on Concerted Strategies to meet the Environmental and Economic Challenges of the 21st Century Club of Rome Vienna, Austria,16 and 17 April 2009 The London G-20 Summit, April 2nd, marked a useful new beginning …
NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL ARCHITECTURE: TWO PROPOSALS
Memorandum by Mr James Robertson, January 2009 ——— I. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 1. This evidence is on the Committee’s point 1.8, amended as follows: “Possible improvements to the architecture of (national and) international financial regulation, and maintenance of (national and) global financial stability”. It affects other points too, as will be …
Re-Designing Money Systems to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Accelerate the Growing Green Economy by Hazel Henderson, presented to the Green Economy Initiative Conference, UNEP, Geneva, Dec. 1, 2008
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WHY OBAMA MISSED BRETTON WOODS II
© 2008 Hazel Henderson www.EthicalMarkets.com Obama’s decision to skip the first summit of leaders of the G-20 in Washington, November 15-16, 2008 reflected his understanding that the world economic order has changed. His emissaries, former secretary of state Madeleine Albright and former Congressman Jim Leach of Iowa were sent as …
FOCUS ON TRADE
NUMBER 144, OCTOBER 2008 IN THIS ISSUE The collapse of the global financial system heralds the end – at least for a while – of the fascination with free markets and fancy financial products. The calls for regulation are coming from every quarter, not least from some of the most …
Changing Games in the Global Casino, June 2008
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Changing Games in the Global Casino
Posted June 17, 2008 By Hazel Henderson Ever since the 1980s when Britain’s Margaret Thatcher and US President Ronald Reagan spurred de-regulation of global finance and privatization, market fundamentalism became the main game. At last, the world is seeing the difference between money and real wealth, between “demand” in markets …
Regime Change in the USA, September 2006
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Corporate Social Responsibility: Walking the Talk, Sept. 2004
Now is the time of reckoning for all corporations trying to adapt to the new realities of the 21st century global marketplace. The earlier Industrial Revolution was based on fossil fuels, resource-intensive production methods and materialistic views of wealth and progress. All this is morphing into the Information Age and …
Rules to Tame The Global Casino, October 1998
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