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Stunning skylines are fuelled by money-and Hong Kong has one of the most stunning in the world. With a lack of land on the island, the only way is up. The most prized-and expensive-plot is the financial district of Central where one skyscraper towers above the rest, star of Batman movies and gleaming white pillar of capitalism, 2 International Finance Center. To ensure the developers made a healthy return on their investment, 2IFC's architects had...
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Niall Ferguson follows the money to tell the human story behind the evolution of finance, from its origins in ancient Mesopotamia to the latest upheavals. To Christians, love of it is the root of all evil. To generals, it's the sinews of war. To revolutionaries, it's the chains of labor. But historian Ferguson shows that finance is in fact the foundation of human progress. What's more, he reveals financial history as the essential backstory behind...
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A sequel to the best-selling Currency Wars predicts a coming collapse of the monetary system while counseling investors on how to survive it, arguing that the dollar will be at the center of a crisis that will differentiate money from wealth.
" "The next financial collapse will resemble nothing in history. Deciding upon the best course to follow will require comprehending a minefield of risks, while poised at a crossroads, pondering the death of...
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n The Fiat Standard, world-renowned economist Saifedean Ammous applies his unique analytical lens to the fiat monetary system, explaining it as a feat of engineering and technology just as he did for bitcoin in his global bestseller The Bitcoin Standard.
This time, Ammous delves into the world's earlier shift from the gold standard to today's system of government-backed fiat money—outlining the fiat standard's purposes and failures; deriving...
This time, Ammous delves into the world's earlier shift from the gold standard to today's system of government-backed fiat money—outlining the fiat standard's purposes and failures; deriving...
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Hailed as “the John Grisham of Wall Street” by the New York Times, Christopher Reich returns to the world he knows so well—the dangerous, dazzling world of high finance and international intrigue. In this ingeniously crafted thriller, the bestselling author of Numbered Account and The First Billion introduces his most complex and engaging hero yet: forensic accountant Adam Chapel—and paints a frightening scenario...
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Linda Crompton and Hazel Henderson review the urgent need to reform curricula at business schools in North America and Europe. Many are still teaching from obsolete textbooks with faulty assumptions that still permit companies, financiers, and governments to "externalize" social and environmental impacts from their balance sheets and pass on the costs to taxpayers, citizens, and the environment.
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Hazel Henderson interviews Claudine Schneider and Lawrence Bloom. They discuss conflicts of interest of ratings agencies like Standards & Poors and Moody's. Bloom describes his optimism for the future, in regards to halophytes for China, and Paraguay's efforts to become the first energy self-sufficient country in the world. Schneider, despite her Republican association, describes her frustration with her party and the need to make change.
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NASA Chief Scientist Dennis Bushnell and futurist Hazel Henderson explore the advance of automation as more and more sectors of industrial societies are digitized: from manufacturing to retailing, accounting, healthcare, education, legal services, and even finance. They discuss emerging alternatives such as worker-owned companies; cooperative enterprises; and guaranteed basic incomes now enacted in Brazil, Mexico, and proposed in Switzerland, Europe,...
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Chair of the Business Administration Department at Flagler College Dr. Allison Roberts and Hazel Henderson explore the values underlying much traditional business education. Most business schools still teach with obsolete textbooks and assumptions that self-interest competition is "human nature" and that the impacts of business activities harming others and their environmental costs can be "externalized" from company balance sheets.
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Futurist Hazel Henderson and Asian Markets Sustainability Analyst Matthew McGarvey, discuss trends toward new values beyond Western GDP-measured economic growth. McGarvey recounts his personal journey from growing up in America's heartland to learning Chinese and working in Beijing, and his experiences in Vietnam and other Asian countries.
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NASA Chief Scientist Dennis Bushnell discusses with futurist Hazel Henderson the new alarms raised by Bill Gates, Google's Eric Schmidt, Space-Ex and Tesla's founder Elon Musk and physicist Stephen Hawking that intelligent machines like IBM's Watson may soon outsmart humans. While futurists envisioned "leisure societies," shorter work weeks, guaranteed basic incomes and flowering of culture, art and human potentials - what we got was unemployment,...
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In this film, Ethical Markets Media President Hazel Henderson and Flagler College President Dr. William Abare discuss growing challenges to education: costs rising faster than inflation, students bearing 1.2 trillion dollars in loans while facing disruptive technological changes, and job markets shifting globally. How are traditional colleges challenged by massive open online courses (MOOCs) such as Khan Academy and millions of students learning free...
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Hazel Henderson interviews Kim Ann Curtin, author of "Transforming Wall Street." They discuss the two greatest icons of Western thought, Adam Smith and Charles Darwin, and how their ideas were distorted and misused by elites in 18th century Britain, and now in global economics and finance. Learn about Smith's "Theory of Moral Sentiments" (1759) which explores human behavior in families and communities as empathetic, caring, and cooperative, as well...
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In this film, Ethical Markets Media President Hazel Henderson interviews Wall Street Coach CEO and "Transforming Wall Street" author Kim Ann Curtin. In her new book, Curtin interviews 50 well-known Wall Street players on their moral challenges in business and finance and what values guide their behavior, asking if they read Adam Smith's "Theory of Moral Sentiments" (1759). Most had not, and these revealing interviews raise key issues of how further...
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Hazel Henderson believes the old models for development are changing, going beyond GDP and GNP to broader indicators of wealth based on peace and human rights. According to Henderson, the rise of nonprofits, NGOs, and volunteer workers has challenged old-fashioned corporate mentalities, and the concept of socially responsible investing is gaining momentum. Is an era of environmental sustainability, respect for social concerns, and global cooperation...
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In this film Ethical Markets president and Futurist Hazel Henderson interviews University of Florida law professor and former speaker in Florida's House of Representatives Jon L. Mills about his current book, "Privacy in the New Media Age." The Internet, social media, blogs, "citizen-journalists" and global news distribution pose thorny issues in many countries. While the U.S. favors free speech over individual rights to privacy, European countries...