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Political Economy
La Nausée Russe
Authoritarian regimes in Russia tend to die not from external blows or domestic insurrections, but rather from a strange internal disease resembling Jean-Paul Sartre's existential nausea. Today, Vladimir Putin’s regime is atrophying from that same strange disease, despite – or because of – the seemi...
Rethinking the Growth Imperative
Modern macroeconomics often seems to treat rapid and stable economic growth as the be-all and end-all of policy. But, while that is the message from graduate classrooms to central-bank boardrooms to newspapers’ front pages, is it true?
Organizational Sustainability
Greenwashing The Consumer Mind
Where Do Values Come From? Within the widening sustainability debate-- and, particularly, the emerging hot topic of sustainable consumption -- there’s an increasing amount of commentary appearing that focuses on our ‘values schema’...
Corporations: Bad For Capitalism
Blaming Capitalism for Corporatism One of the big debates at Davos this year will concern the future of capitalism. But the system that is now in crisis is not capitalism, but corporatism, which chokes off the dynamism that makes for engaging work, faster economic growth, and greater opportunity and...
Resources + Utilities
Corn-fed Capitalism
Just as the financial industry caused a near-meltdown of the global economy in 2008, the food industry has facilitated the explosion of obesity around the world. In both cases, the links to broader problems with contemporary Western capitalism have become impossible to ignore.
Upset with Carbon Offset?
Yes. It is perfectly understandable that many passionate people working in development and Sustainability remain downbeat about the glacial-speed of progress to arrive at a meaningful global deal to tackle climate chaos. Yet at the...
CSR + Investors
Be the Change – But first Be Yourself
What do we know about the role of individuals as CSR change agents? Intuitively, we resonate with adages such as Gandhi's 'be the change you want to see in the world,' or Margaret Mead's famous quote: 'Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it'...
From Corporate Empire to Compassionate Capitalism
In his books and articles, John Perkins outlines the predations of what he calls the corporatocracy, including the impoverishment of Third World nations and the financial implosions in the mature industrial economies. His latest book, Hoodwinked (now out in an updated paperback edition) explores the...
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