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Evolving Finance, Money and Markets Evolving Finance, Money and Markets © 2021 Hazel Henderson Today’s global casino is now experiencing yet another step change, as central banks shift their focus from austerity and debt to stimulus to cope with pandemics and climate crises and fending off Facebook‘s competitive “Libra” and other cryptos. As the rules change in finance and money, they are also changing in markets, as they adapt to ecological limits, consumer pressures, and shareholders...

Evolving Finance, Money and Markets Published 2 hours ago © 2021 Hazel Henderson Today’s global casino is now experiencing yet another step change, as central banks shift their focus from austerity and debt to stimulus to cope with pandemics and climate crises and fending off Facebook‘s competitive “Libra” and other cryptos. As the rules change in finance and money, they are also changing in markets, as they adapt to ecological limits, consumer pressures, and shareholders’ changing v...

The development of Covid-19 vaccines in less than a year was clearly a major achievement. But the rollout has been far from perfect. In the United States, Operation Warp Speed met its manufacturing targets but stumbled in coordinating initial shipments. The plan neither prioritised vaccine recipients according to need, nor did it go far enough to address racial inequality in the distribution. Clearly, creating safe and effective vaccines and creating equitable vaccination programmes are two d...

books and culture Failing at Liftoff A celebrated economist’s “moonshot” case against capitalism suffers from hubris and selective history. Economy, finance, and budgets It’s common to compliment political leaders by saying that they have a vision, but the word “visionary” may refer either to someone with a constructive view of the future or to someone prone to hallucinations. The distinction is crucial, as the case of economist Mariana Mazzucato shows. Mazzucato is...

List The only published and available best-selling indie book chart in New Zealand is the top 10 sales list recorded every week at Unity Books’ stores in High St, Auckland, and Willis St, Wellington. AUCKLAND Winner of the 2021 Booker Prize. 2  How to Avoid a Climate Disaster by Bill Gates (Allen Lane, $48) From the New York Times review: “Power comes in many forms, from geothermal and nuclear to congressional and economic; it’s wonderful that Gates has decided to work hard on climate qu...

Fixing climate change, poverty and ocean plastic requires a Moonshot approach, economist Mariana Mazzucato says Posted ThuThursday 1 The Moonshot approach can help us fix the problems of today, says economist Mariana Mazzucato. ( Print text only Cancel Nearly six decades ago, President John F Kennedys famous "Moonshot speech" rallied the US public behind the Apollo mission to send astronauts to the Moon. "We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are ...

A moon shot model for the transformation of capitalism PHOTOGRAPHS BY Jeff Frost A helicopter surveyed the area with a searchlight during the Lake Fire in the San Bernardino National Forest near Big Bear Lake, California, in 2015. Capitalism is facing three major crises. A pandemic-induced health crisis has rapidly ignited an economic crisis with yet unknown consequences for financial stability, and all of this is playing out against the backdrop of a climate crisis that cannot be addressed und...

Do not defund the BBC Feb 28,2021 - Last updated at Feb 28,2021 LONDON  —  In last year’s Reith Lectures, the BBC’s annual radio series, former Bank of England Governor Mark Carney observes that, since the 2008 financial crisis, norms and institutions have increasingly been defined by their monetary value. What is often missing from this discussion of price, is how to capture the real worth of the public institutions that enrich us. It is fitting that Carney makes this point on a BBC pr...

Women are a rarity at the highest level of economic policy-making in Britain. There has still never been a female Chancellor, although Labours current shadow Anneliese Dodds would like to change that. And the current group in the top jobs at the Bank of England are an old boys club. So it is hugely fascinating that Italian-born, American-educated University College London big thinker Mariana Mazzucato, 52, has risen above the crowd as one of the most agile thinkers on post-Brexit, post-Covid Br...

‘Aspen Ideas: RE$ET’ features economists, business leaders, entrepreneurs and others from Main Street America Staff report The Aspen Institute will host two days of online programming on the current state and future of the American economy next week. Dubbed “Aspen Ideas: RE$ET,” the free participatory event will run Monday and Tuesday, featuring leading economists, business leaders, entrepreneurs and voices from main streets across the U.S. In the wake of a pandemic-induced recession th...