By Geoffrey Mazullo on December 3, 2010 Each week Emerging Markets ESG publishes an interview entitled, “Five Questions about SRI.” The interview features a practitioner’s insights about SRI in emerging markets and through Emerging Markets ESG shares this expertise with a wide global audience. The goals of Five Questions about SRI are fourfold: To reflect on what SRI in …
For Responsible Investor, October 19th, 2010 Despite the special pleadings of high frequency traders (HFT), the SEC’s initial report on the May 6, 2010, “flash crash” shows them as bogus. “Providing liquidity” claims for HFT turned out to be false – liquidity disappeared when needed. Price discovery was hampered by the additional “noise” of thousands …
FINANCIAL TRANSACTION TAXES: THE COMMONSENSE APPROACH BY HAZEL HENDERSON Read More »
My comments are part of a conversation with my colleagues on the Advisory Board of the Capital Institute, founded by our Ethical Markets Advisory Board member John Fullerton, about the limits of markets in moving humans toward sustainable forms of living. – Hazel Henderson, Ed. By Hazel Henderson © 2010 The important paper on the limits …
Review by Hazel Henderson. This compilation of papers by Britain’s best and brightest addresses the structural weaknesses and questions the social utility of the global financial system. These deeper issues are not addressed by the new US 843-page Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act signed by President Obama. The Future of Finance (downloadable) …
“Preventing a Double-Dip Requires a New Team in Washington” Reviewed by Hazel Henderson © 2010 In my review of Robert Kuttner’s earlier Obama’s Challenge (2008), I shared his concern that Obama’s administration could become one of continuity – with little of the change the USA needs. In this earlier volume, Kuttner worried, as I did, …
A PRESIDENCY IN PERIL BY ROBERT KUTTNER, CHELSEA GREEN 2010 Read More »
Hazel Henderson discusses the manipulation power of advertising and the importance of ethical marketing in her answer to Talkback’s question, is neuromarketing ethical? Un-Ethical Neuromarketing Marketing helped drive the USA’s post World War II boom. The arts of advertising and public relations flowered on Madison Avenue and in hundreds of business schools in the USA …
HAZEL HENDERSON ANSWERS, IS NEUROMARKETING ETHICAL? Read More »
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 phrase which appeared on the …
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 socially responsible investing is viable …
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 could be a personal mentor. I met …
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 wrote the foreword, seeks to …
Lecturing Birds on Flying, by Pablo Triana, J Wiley, 2009 Read More »
