by Hazel Henderson for SeekingAlpha.com The Systems View Of Life: A Unifying Vision by Fritjof Capra and Pier Luigi Luisi, Cambridge University Press, UK 2014 This hefty volume, The Systems View of Life: A Unifying Vision, is a tour de force and will be a perennial textbook for decades …
Holistic Resource Management: A Conceptual Framework for Ecologically Sound Economic Modelling
This wise article by Allan Savory in 1991 went unheeded by the economics profession, just as so many others including my own!” – Hazel Henderson, editor Download the article.
OTHER NEWS: New Policies Beyond Austerity and Stimulus
New Policies Beyond Austerity and Stimulus By Hazel Henderson* ST. AUGUSTINE, Florida, Nov 2013 (Columnist Service) – It is time to move the global policy debate beyond the binary options of “austerity” versus “stimulus.” Both these macroeconomic policies have caused untold harm to millions and produced dangerous policy …
Review of The Entrepreneurial State By Mariana Mazzucato, Anthem Press
The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Public vs. Private Sector Myths Review of The Entrepreneurial State By Mariana Mazzucato, Anthem Press, London, 2013 By Hazel Henderson © 2013, for SeekingAlpha.com The Entrepreneurial State by Mariana Mazzucato could help move the global policy debate beyond the binary options of “austerity” versus “stimulus.” …
UN Officials Urge Measures to Boost the World’s Flagging Economy
“This conventional “inside the economics box” view , with few new ideas, shows how much further the economics profession needs to go to improve its understanding of today’s true global situation. Hazel Henderson, Editor-in-chief” UN OFFICIALS URGE MEASURES TO BOOST THE WORLD’S FLAGGING ECONOMY New York, Feb 7 2012 6:05PM …
Transforming Finance To Grow Green Sustainable Economies
By Hazel Henderson (*) SAINT AUGUSTINE, FLORIDA, Oct (IPS) “We recognize finance as part of the global commons,” affirms the Transforming Finance statement, signed by financial professionals worldwide critical of today’s casino capital markets. Financialization has produced the global debt bubble. Needed now are write-offs and haircuts to bond-holders and …
Book Review: The Globalization Paradox
Review by Hazel Henderson, originally published on SeekingAlpha.com Dani Rodrik in his latest book moves much further outside the perimeter of conventional economics than before. He describes the battle within the economics profession between the “hedgehogs” (who know one big thing) and the “foxes” (who know many things). For full …
How Economists Facilitated the Crisis and Must Now Be Held Accountable
This article is part I of III, of Mr. Zarlenga’s address at the Eastern Economic Association Annual Meeting in NYC on February 26th, 2011. Listen to it here. The ongoing financial crisis presents a rare opportunity for monetary and banking reform. There’s no denying that the present “Economics Regime” has …
Economics profession aloof, irrelevant and impotent – director of new economic think-tank
Embargo: 4th February 2011. Contact: Georgia Lee: 07748565958 [email protected] www.primeeconomics.org (site will go live on Friday, 4th February, 2011) To coincide with the 75th anniversary of the publication of Keynes’s General Theory, a new think-tank is launched today: Policy Research in MacroEconomics (PRIME). Ann Pettifor, a director and co-founder of …