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 and gradually spread to Europe and other industrial societies. From meeting needs expressed by consumers, marketing began to drive hyper-consumerism by inventing and creating new …
Is the Supreme Court’s decision to treat corporations as “persons” a debacle for democracy — or an opportunity for corporate social responsibility? Hazel Henderson of Ethical Markets has some creative answers. SUPREME COURT’S SHOCKER MAKES CSR KEY BUTTRESS OF DEMOCRACY By Hazel Henderson © 2010 If the worldwide movement for corporate social responsibility didn’t exist, …
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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 …
ROME, Sep 18, 2009 (IPS) – Hazel Henderson is a futurist, an economic iconoclast, founder of Ethical Markets Media, and author of the books Building A Win-Win World, Beyond Globalization, Planetary Citizenship, and Ethical Markets: Growing the Green Economy. Her main focus is exploring the “blind spots” in conventional economic theory. Read more…
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 …
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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 …
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Review by Hazel Henderson Both of these books are excellent accounts of the 2008-2009 financial meltdown – from different and complementary perspectives. Barry Ritholtz is an irreverent Wall Street insider with a bare knuckles critique of the “idiotic” bankers and other big players who brought down the system. Les Leopold’s clear account of why …
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