- Carbon ·
Three Fathers for Father’s Day
Last week, Capital Institute and Benjamin Barber’s Interdependence Movement co-convened a conversation at NYU’s Kimmel Center titled, “Ecological and Economic…
- Commodities ·
Commodities are Different (in a “Full World”)
Foreign Policy’s recent “How Goldman Sachs Created the Food Crisis” reflects the dangerous, myopic thinking all too prone to “blame…
- Anthropocene ·
“Welcome to the Anthropocene”
“The Economist” ran this cover story last week. It’s the most important news item in 10,000 years. Of course it’s…
- Derivatives ·
“US Debt Default Would Be a Moral Disaster”
So declared JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon regarding the prospect of a US default on its debt, after which he received…
- Future of Finance ·
The $4 Billion Pen
Matt Taibbi’s “The People vs. Goldman Sachs” which appeared in Rolling Stone this week is a good and damning piece. In his…
- Future of Finance ·
“No Compound Growth is Sustainable”
“The fact is that no compound growth is sustainable. If we maintain our desperate focus on growth, we will run out…
- Future of Finance ·
Finance Professor Earns “King’s” Ransom at Galleon Trial
I’m not following the trial of hedge fund manager Raj (“King”) Rajaratnam very closely, and I have no unique insight…
- Future of Finance ·
Guest Post: More on the Complexity Economics Panel at Bretton Woods
New Economic Thinking… on reading economic data The recent INET meeting at Bretton Woods organized by the Institute for New…
- Complexity ·
Progress at Bretton Woods
I returned late last night from the second Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET) Conference which took place at Bretton Woods. This…
- Future of Finance ·
The Relevance of EF Schumacher in the 21st Century
People often ask me to recommend “just three books” in order to study the ideas behind my current thinking. While…
- Archives ·
Annual Report 2015
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- Competition ·
The President’s Counsel on Jobs and Competitiveness … and Tax Avoidance
The NY Times report by David Kocieniewski on GE’s aggressive tax strategies under the leadership of John Samuels, a former Treasury Department…
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Annual Report 2013
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Annual Report 2014
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- Future of Finance ·
Finally, a Discussion of Scale
Adair Turner, Chairman of the FSA (the SEC of the United Kingdom) is smart, articulate, and more aware than any…