New Policies Beyond Austerity and Stimulus
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CSR Wire: Don’t Be Evil: What’s the Matter with Google?
Don’t Be Evil: What’s the Matter with Google? Has Google lost its way? Why is the organization now funding regressive organizations fronting for the fossilized sectors and legacy incumbent interests holding back the green economy? What happened to the founders’ mission of catalyzing a whole-system transition from the fossil-fueled Industrial Era to the cleaner, …
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Review Of ‘The Energy Of Nations’ By Jeremy Leggett
The Energy of Nations: Risk Blindness and the Road to Renaissance Banks and financial sector firms are still held in low repute by public opinion in many countries. Taxpayers and retail investors along with average citizens still distrust stock markets, high frequency trading and resent their banks, brokers and insurance firms due to their …
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Book Reviews: ‘The Locust And The Bee’ And ‘The Collaboration Economy’
The Locust and the Bee: Predators and Creators in Capitalism’s Future Author Geoff Mulgan, former top aide to Britain’s Prime Minister Tony Blair and founder of the celebrated think tank Demos, earns his spurs as a top-rank, global public intellectual with his latest book, The Locust and The Bee (Princeton University Press, 2013). Mulgan has been watching …
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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 stalemates in Europe and the …
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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.” Both these macroeconomic policies have caused untold harm to millions and produced dangerous policy stalemates in the USA, Europe, Japan and other countries. The experiments in Europe to impose austerity have not only caused …
Time to internalize those externalities and get prices right
By Hazel Henderson (http://www.greenbiz.com/blog/2012/12/21/time-internalize-those-externalities-and-get-prices-right) An “externality” is code in economics jargon meaning any cost of producing a product that can be omitted (i.e., externalized) from the producer’s balance sheet and passed on to taxpayers, the public or hidden in the environment for future generations to pay. This scam, still buried in obsolete economic textbooks, assumes …
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NUCLEAR FISSION: THE MOST WASTEFUL, STUPID, AND COSTLY SYSTEM FOR BOILING WATER
By Hazel Henderson SAINT AUGUSTINE, MAR (IPS) I have opposed nuclear power since my service on the US Congress Office of Technology Assessment Advisory Council, from 1975 until 1980. Even back then it was clear that nuclear power was a fearsome military technology looking for a civilian second life. President Eisenhower’s “Atoms for Peace” was …
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A NEW ROLE FOR ADVERTISING
By Hazel Henderson © 2012 For CSRWire November 2012 After the successful rise over the past century, advertising is now a $500 billion plus worldwide industry – helping grow consumer markets for millions of products. Yet, never before has advertising been such a target of critics and reformers. Rumblings of dissent were evident back in the 1950s with …
Review Of Zeronauts By John Elkington
ZERONAUTS: BREAKING THE SUSTAINABILITY BARRIER by John Elkington, EarthScan, London; Routledge, New York, 2012 Author John Elkington is a founder of the global movement for corporate and investor responsibility, author of seventeen books; founder of the famed consultancy SustainAbility and currently co-founder of the investment firm Volans Ventures, based in London. As a serial innovator, …