TRANSFORMING FINANCE STILL TOP PRIORITY By Hazel Henderson © 2013, first published on CSRWire Feb. 8, 2013 Despite incremental reforms: the Dodd-Frank Act in the USA, Basel III and the 0.1% financial transaction tax now approved by EU finance ministers, the global financial casino is still playing. Financial lobbying still seeks to …
Review Of James Gustave Speth’s America The Possible: Manifesto For A New Economy
Author James Gustave Speth is one of the most prominent, knowledgeable, global environmentalists of our time. A quintessential insider, Speth began as an anti-nuclear activist in the 1970s and later chaired President Jimmy Carter’s Council on Environmental Quality. In the 1980s, he founded and led the influential World Resources Institute …
Arianna Huffington on Empathy–Arianna Huffington wrote a book exploring what drives us to include the world around us in our individual caring
News on The Edge Welcome to the Social Edge update! A few years ago, Arianna Huffington wrote a book exploring what drives us to include the world around us in our individual caring. Not surprisingly then, she went to the Skoll World Forum last month to speak on a panel …
Transforming Finance Group’s Call Recognizes Finance as a Global Commons
Press Release: Financial Group Recognizes Finance As A Global Commons, 2010 The Committee on Transforming Finance, a multinational network of career market participants: investors, asset managers, business executives, philanthropists, academics and financial authors, holds that the financial system is a global commons and calls for a new set of rules …
ORIGINAL TRANSFORMING FINANCE STATEMENT
Link to Full Statement and Signatories Bibliography September 13, 2010, St. Augustine, Fl, USA; Sao Paulo, Brazil; Greenwich, CT , USA Financial experts, warning of future crises, call for re-affirming finance as a global commons, first recognized at Bretton Woods in 1945. The TRANSFORMING FINANCE group, as beneficiaries and active …