Business as Usual and Stuff the Planet
The desire to return to business as usual isn’t restricted to the obscenity of bankers’ bonuses. That same desire is shared by unemployed potters in Stoke on Trent, car workers in Detroit, and the...
View ArticleShared Value: another variation on the neo-classical theme
An article in the current issue of Harvard Business Review, by eminent Harvard Business School economist, Michael Porter, and his business partner, consultant Mark Kramer, claims to be showing ‘how to...
View ArticleOsborne’s Wasted Opportunity
In the context of UK’s indebtedness, it might seem that any morsels in the new budget to benefit the real economy, for start-ups, small businesses, for technology and innovation, should be thankfully...
View ArticleGlencore and their ilk are screwing the world
The system is wrong, not the people. The financial sector is out of control and is screwing the rest of us. We know traders will trade in anything that looks like making a profit. We know they make...
View ArticleHow To Spend It
The bonuses earned by the bankers, hedgers and various fund managers arise as a result of making fast, smart decisions about movements in currencies, commodity prices, food, energy and key resource...
View ArticleSustainable Wealth of Nations
During the initial phase of industrialisation, Adam Smith argued that a nation’s supply of ‘wants and conveniences’ depended mostly on the ‘skill, dexterity and judgment’ of its workers and the extent...
View ArticleCapitalism to the Rescue
There are an increasing number of live initiatives for making the capitalist system more sustainable and equitable. Improving environmental, social and governance performance would be steps in that...
View ArticleA High Velocity Economy
Our children and grand-children are facing a far less fair and equitable society than the one people grew up in 30 or more years ago. That’s the analysis of Jan Zablocki, Green Party candidate for...
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