Ralph spends the entire hour with the indefatigable, Hazel Henderson, the founder of the group, Ethical Markets, whose mission is to advocate for ways to measure prosperity and promoting economic models that emphasize not cut-throat competition and fear of scarcity but are based on principals of cooperation and sharing in our abundance.
Hazel Henderson is an author, world-renowned futurist, evolutionary economist, worldwide syndicated columnist, and consultant on sustainable development. She is the founder of Ethical Markets Media and the creator and co-executive producer of the Ethical Markets TV series. She has edited and authored numerous books, including the award-winning Ethical Markets: Growing the Green Economy, Planetary Citizenship, and The Politics of the Solar Age.
She leads the Transforming Finance initiative, co-developed (with the Calvert Group) the GDP alternative known as the Ethical Markets Quality of Life Indicators (originally the Calvert-Henderson Quality of Life Indicators), and co-organized the Beyond GDP conference for the European Commission. In 2013, she was inducted into the International Society of Sustainability Professionals Hall of Fame.
Markets and money are useful tools that humans have been using for thousands of years. And it was only about 300 years ago with the Industrial Revolution that it was the idea of weaponizing money and markets and making systems of accounting that were predatory on the golden rule societies. And they weaponized money and markets for accumulation and power.
Hazel Henderson, Ethical Markets
We all know that the price system is a function of human ignorance. Because we permit the falsity of “externalities” — allowing anything you don’t want to pay attention to — to fall off your balance sheet and be passed on to taxpayers or to future generations… We’ve come to the end of the line with that.
Hazel Henderson, Ethical Markets