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You don’t like paying with a check, and you really don’t like getting paid with one. Yet even today, in 2015, you write a lot of them: over 13 billion checks every year are written for over $1 trillion. We introduced Square Cash in 2013 as the fastest, easiest way to pay anyone. All you needed was a phone number or email address, and a debit card. We launched the service for individuals, streamlining payments for everything from splitting the dinner bill to sharing vacation costs. Cooperatives, Nonprofits. Global Property Guide. Decentralized App Aims to Provide Basic Income for All. Is Data Complexity Blinding Your IT Decision-Making? Life in a 'degrowth' economy, and why you might actually enjoy it. What does genuine economic progress look like?
The orthodox answer is that a bigger economy is always better, but this idea is increasingly strained by the knowledge that, on a finite planet, the economy can’t grow for ever. This week’s Addicted to Growth conference in Sydney is exploring how to move beyond growth economics and towards a “steady-state” economy. Trading without money? Why a new system can address the economic spiral.
Earlier this month the founder of firm Patagonia, Yvon Chouinard questioned the impact of greener business within an ever expanding economy.
"The elephant in the room is growth," he said. As an increase in gross domestic product (GDP) simply means more money changing hands, Chouinard is not alone in thinking it's a fairly inadequate measure of human progress. Politicians of most countries now agree new measures would be useful, and there is a growing community of professionals who seek to audit various aspects of our happiness and wellbeing. When colleagues enthuse about new measures of progress, I can't help but wonder why for the past 20 years an alternative measure of progress has had such little impact on public policy or corporate strategy.
The Human Development Index (HDI) is backed by the United Nations and measures life expectancy, education, and income. While more politicians promote new measures of progress, they remain fixated on increasing economic growth. Moxy Knowledge Management. The Knowledge Management Programme. Forget Storytelling, Try Storydoing. Marc Andreessen famously said, "A company without a story is a company without a strategy.
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I suggest that Per Kristiansen and Michel Cloosterman may comment about further practical details, but I will kick off the discussion about the core concepts. Business Model Generation and Lego Serious Play combo. Investment Tips For The 99% 5 Steps For Starting and Funding a Social Good Enterprise. The Commerce With a Conscience Series is supported by FedEx.
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The rising emerging market middle class According to some forecasts, in less than 20 years, a majority of the world’s population will have risen out of poverty. By 2030, even by conservative estimates, the number of people worldwide defined as middle class will likely double to 2 billion. “This is the largest demographic wave we’ve ever witnessed,” Chris Hyzy, chief investment officer at U.S. Trust, says, “in terms of both the sheer number of people heading into the middle class and also in the collective spending power this group will have.” Because a disproportionate amount of that middle-class expansion is taking place in developing and frontier markets, those nations should account for an even larger portion of global economic growth than they already do. Can disruptive policy create a sustainable finance system? The ideas for creating a new and sustainable finance system are out there.
If this thinking doesn't get greater exposure to policy makers and the media, the world of finance will remain a barrier to social and environmental progress. Since the financial crisis of 2007/8, there remains an enduring understanding amongst commentators that the financial system, as it was structured up to 2007, was a major contributor to the crash. There are also well understood flaws in the system that, if rebuilt in the same way, are likely to be major barriers to supporting a sustainable, and socially just, economy. Issues such as short termism, the conflicts of interest between principal and agent in the investment supply chain, failure of the system to place value on environmental & social risks, and the sheer complexity of the financial markets all play a role in steering capital away from socially useful purposes just at the time we need it most.
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Dabba wallahs have been delivering meals for a century, but over the years, lunchbox fare has changed dramatically. Dabba wallahs carry lunchboxes to offices in Indian cities. But the old tradition is changing with modern times. Flourishing as a Goal of International Policy. The discipline of positive psychology studies what free people choose when they are not oppressed. I call these desiderata the elements of “well-being,” and when an individual or nation has them in abundance I say it is “flourishing.” Governments continue to organize their politics and economics around the relief of suffering, and I cannot confidently predict that the planet’s future will be bright with nonoppressed peoples freely choosing the elements of well-being.
But if there is to be a “positive human future,” and not just a “nonnegative human future,” it is necessary to discover what the elements of well-being are and how to build them. Well-being has five measurable elements that count toward it: Positive Emotion (of which happiness and life satisfaction are aspects)Engagement (being in flow, being one with the music)Good RelationshipsMeaning and Purpose (belonging to and serving something you believe is bigger than you are)Accomplishment, Achievement, and Mastery References. Watson. Liquidity and Solvency Shocks in a Network Model of Systemic Risk: The Impact of Minimum Capital and Reserve Requirements by Andreas Krause, Simone Giansante. Andreas Krause University of Bath Simone Giansante University of Bath - School of ManagementAugust 19, 2012 25th Australasian Finance and Banking Conference 2012. The First Trillionaires Will Make Their Fortunes in Space. What's the Big Idea?
Just as explorers during the Age of Discovery established new trade routes in pursuit of resources such as gold, silver and spices, the future explorers of space will be chasing unimaginable riches. As Peter Diamandis told the International Space Development Conference, “There are twenty-trillion-dollar checks up there, waiting to be cashed!” These cosmic cash cows are so-called Near-Earth asteroids that contain a wide range of precious resources. Sure, this may sound a lot like the movie Avatar, in which the RDA Corporation mined the mineral unobtanium on the planet of Pandora. The First Open Company (Gittip Blog) 7. 2012: The International Year of Cooperatives. October 10, 2012 The United Nations named 2012 as the International Year of Cooperatives. According to the UN, nearly one billion people worldwide are co-op member-owners, and the co-op is expected to be the world’s fastest growing business model by 2025.
Worker-owned cooperatives provide for equitable distribution of wealth and genuine connection to the workplace, two key components of a sustainable economy. How to Start a Solar Co-op. Save The World From The Comfort Of Your Toilet. Why Chipotle Insists on Humanely Raised Meat - Newsweek and The Daily Beast. Don't Buy Those Expensive Jeans. Companies normally use a leasing model for durable goods, such as cars or heavy machinery.
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