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Hazel Henderson is author of Ethical Markets: Growing The Green Economy (2007) and co-creator with the Calvert Group of the Calvert-Henderson Quality of Life Indicators regularly updated at www.Calvert-Henderson.com (http://www.Calvert-Henderson.com). She can be reached at www.EthicalMarkets.com... More
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  • G-20: REFORM THE GLOBAL CASINO
    © Hazel Henderson, 2009, for InterPress Service
      
    The awful truth is emerging: globalized rogue finance is disordering human societies and destroying our ecological life-support systems on a worldwide scale. A spate of books and studies examining the role of finance finds deep flaws in the way money is created and credit is allocated. The age-old invention of money which extended opportunities for trading beyond barter has become a computerized global monster. Blind to other human values and goals, this global casino has decoupled and abstracted from real economies. 
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    Oct 07 03:25 pm | Link | Comment!
  • Lecturing Birds on Flying, by Pablo Triana; review by Hazel Henderson
    Lecturing Birds on Flying, by Pablo Triana, J Wiley, 2009
     
    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 reform financial markets by dumping most of the mathematical models and the academic "quants" who invaded Wall Street since the 1980s.
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    Sep 01 04:58 pm | Link | Comment!
  • The Myth of Resource Efficiency: the Jevons Paradox by Polimeni, Mayumi, Giampietro and Alcott; review by Hazel Henderson
    The Myth of Resource Efficiency: the Jevons Paradox by John M. Polimeni, Kozo Mayumi, Mario Giampietro and Blake Alcott, Earthscan, 2009
     
     
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    Sep 01 04:56 pm | Link | 1 Comment
  • Managing Without Growth: slower by design, not disaster by Peter A. Victor; Review by Hazel Henderson
    Managing Without Growth: slower by design, not disaster by Peter A. Victor, Advances in Ecological Economics, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2008
     
     
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  • Review of I.O.U.S.A. by Addison Wiggin and Kate Incontrera

    This book and accompanying movie draws attention vividly to the now tapped-out version of US economic growth fuelled by debt and low interest rates. The credit card nation is waking up. The authors, both as publisher and editor of The Daily Reckoning, a stock market letter with a consistently bearish view generally touting gold, see only the traditional Wall Street view of debts and deficits.

    I.O.U.S.A. deplores deficit spending by governments focusing on reducing "entitlements" and social programs while giving little thought to the role of tax cuts to the top tiers of society (the "trickle down" theory in economics). Neither is the other 600 lb gorilla of military spending (over half the US budget) targeted for cuts. 
     
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    Jun 01 04:24 pm | Link | Comment!
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