“Ethical Markets would like to bring attention to the below articles that can be found on www.ethicalmarkets.com in “Articles by Hazel Henderson”. Even though these articles were written in 2020, they address concerns that are unfolding with current events. ~LaRae Long, Executive Director” “STEERING SOCIAL MEDIA TOWARD SANITY” (2020) “US VOTERS: CIRCULAR POLITICS BEYOND POLARIZATION“ (2020)
ECONOMY & POLITICS Published by WSIM (The water planet) Looking at our planet, we see that it is mostly water. So why are so many politicians, scientists, public officials in hundreds of global conferences all warning of a “Water Crisis”? These alarms are really just focused on the planet’s 3% of freshwater, ignoring the abundant 97% …
Tuesday, December 8, 2020 – 2:30pm NEWSROOM: Ethical Markets © 2020 The earliest markets for metaphysical reconstruction evolved continually from changing belief systems, religions, creation stories, cultural fashions, and later from science fiction, futures forecasting scenarios. These changing styles of being and behaving are ubiquitously and profitably expressed in the arts: paintings, poetry, fiction books, music, …
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THE NEXT FEW YEARS WILL BE CRUCIAL Social media The global evidence is in: social media platforms based on advertising and profit-maximizing have clearly morphed into monsters threatening all societies and democratic human values, as I described in Democracy Challenged in the Digital Age. From inciting riots in India and Myanmar, abetting terrorism, extremism, violence and …
©2020 The US 2020 election illustrated once again that independent voters are tired of the two-party red or blue duopoly. Like European voters they are beyond left and right and ahead with new visions of the future. Old memes and battles between capitalism and socialism ended in the past Cold War. Markets survive and are …
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©2020 Today the money meme rules our lives and social interactions in most societies on Earth. How did this happen? I studied all the economics textbooks of every perspective from the Austrian “laissez-faire” market fundamentalists to Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations, (1776) and his earlier Theory of Moral Sentiments, (1759), as well as Karl Marx, …
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Today the money meme rules our lives and interactions in most societies on Earth Today the money meme rules our lives and interactions in most societies on Earth. How did this happen? Economists analyze money-based markets. Trading is innate in human behavior. Karl Polanyi describes how indigenous peoples in the South Pacific traded shells in …
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©2020 We humans have evolved a new form of governance beyond our machine age democracies: toward radical still unruly participatory mediocracies in our Information Age, as I first described in 1964 and in “Mediocracies and Their Attention Economies“. The early promise of television foreseen by Canadian Marshall McLuhan in, “Understanding Media” (1964) was in the birth …
Published by Wall Street International Magazine Mining the Earth We humans, having populated every part of Earth’s surface and visited the Moon, now are perched atop the planet’s food chain. We are learning from this perilous position but hastening the extinction of all other species in our shared, life-supporting biosphere. The planet is now teaching …
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“China the Bubble That Never Pops” by Thomas Orlik, Oxford University Press (2020) “The Future of Humanity: Global Civilization and China’s Rejuvenation” by Zhouying JIN, Intellect Ltd (2019) ©2020 Author of “China: The Bubble That Never Pops” (2020), Thomas Orlik, as Bloomberg’s Chief Asia Economist spent 11 years in China. This book is a breath of …
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