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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’ changing values. Key public intellectuals have emerged who are facing down all the old verities ...

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 values. Key public intellectuals have emerged who are facing down all the old verities in textbook ec...

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 different things. States’ Mission-oriented innovation agencies, especially the Defense Advanced Res...

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 a staunch critic of business visionaries—Steve Jobs, Bill Gates—whose success she considers “...

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 questions, but to be truly helpful he needs to resolve to be a better geek — he needs to really get ...