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“The U.S. has been taken over by a financial oligarchy.”
Simon Johnson is the Ronald A. Kurtz (1954) Professor of Entrepreneurship at MIT Sloan School of Management. (more)
“The long term norm of the economy is great instability and high inequality.”
Gar Alperovitz is Lionel R. Bauman Professor of Political-Economy at the University of Maryland and one of the founders of the University’s Democracy Collaborative. (more)
Open Society Institute chairman and founder George Soros shares his latest thinking on economics and politics in a five-part lecture (more)
“This financial system is seriously broken and its broken in a way that's going to create maximum danger and damage going forward. It has to be fixed.”
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“The Corporation, a Canadian documentary film, though issued first in 2003, is brandnew today by the 'virtue' of Supreme Court. It is time again to ... (more)”
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“Microfinance is increasingly seen as a major development tool. Nevertheless, providing financial services to the poor generates some unresolved ethical questions, and its effectiveness on actual poverty reduction has insufficiently been evaluated... we need to revisit the institution of money itself to generate the additional tools needed to effectively increase wealth among the poor.”
Lietaer, Bernard A. Measuring Wealth: the Monetary Blind Spot.
(more)“HOW TO SAVE FORESTS WITH SAVINGS FOR AND BY THE POOR?”
Hudon, M. and Lietaer, B. (2006) “NATURAL SAVINGS”: A NEW MICROSAVINGS PRODUCT FOR INFLATIONARY ENVIRONMENTS. SAVINGS AND DEVELOPMENT - NO. 4 - 2006 - XXX
(more)“The urgent message for economics from nature is that the monoculture of national currencies, justified on the basis of market efficiency, generates structural instability in our global financial system. Economic sustainability therefore requires diversification in types of currencies, specifically through complementary currencies ”
Lietaer, B., Ulanowicz, R., Goerner, S., and McLaren, N. Is Our Monetary Structure a Systemic Cause for Financial Instability? Evidence and Remedies from Nature. (more)
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