RSA Animate - First as Tragedy, Then as Farce. RSA Animate - Crises of Capitalism. Marty Sullivan figured out how the world’s biggest companies avoided billions in taxes. Here’s how he wants to stop them. Marty Sullivan in the Arlington garage where he parses filings to figure out how multi-national corporations avoid taxes. (Photo by Matt McClain/ The Washington Post) It was a humbling experience for the chief executive of the world’s most valuable company.
Hauled before a Senate panel, Apple’s Tim Cook had to explain how an American company whose American engineers had created the iPhone and the iPad was able to avoid paying any taxes on billions of dollars in profits generated by those products — not to United States, not to any country. The only defense the Cook could conjure up for Apple “stateless” income was that it was all perfectly legal.
A few miles away in Arlington, a 55-year-old economist named Marty Sullivan sat on a folding metal chair at a card table in the garage of his modest brick home and watched the hearing unfold on his laptop computer. For years, big multinational corporations, waving the banner of competitiveness, have been pushing hard for corporate tax reform. Inkomstkyftor i Sverige - Klyftorna är större än vad du tror.
Sacred Economics with Charles Eisenstein - A Short Film. Emanuele Campiglio - Towards an Ecological Macroeconomics. July 10, 2012 // By: Emanuele Campiglio A couple of weeks ago I attended the International conference on Ecological Economics, held in Rio de Janeiro just a few days before the Rio+20 UN Summit, where a few hundreds researchers have been presenting their work together with some high-level keynote speakers (Peter Victor, Mathis Wackernagel, William Rees, the Prime Minister of Bhutan, Ignacy Sachs and others).
One of the most debated topics during sessions and informal discussions seemed to be the one nef has been intensively working on lately, that is Ecological Macroeconomics (otherwise termed Macroeconomics of sustainability). The aim of this line of research is to give sound macroeconomic foundations to ecological/environmental issues, and more in general to include sustainability (including financial sustainability) into the macro picture. Victor’s work has become exceptionally popular among researchers interested in sustainability issues. Issues Macroeconomics, Energy & Climate Change. Rethinking Capitalism - Video. What's all the fuzz about money? Chiang Mai, Thailand - In response to the 2008 global meltdown, there are really two arguments for what needs to happen next.
One is fairly straightforward: We need to change the financial system through which money flows - though of course, the debate is on what precisely needs to be changed. But there is a more fundamental debate growing throughout the world of autonomous media and its productive publics: What if money itself needed to be changed? This is not a debate about the financial system per se, but actually an argument about the intrinsic "design" of money. But, isn't money just money? No, it isn't, and paradoxically, though the debates precedes its emergence, the internet played a big role in teaching us a new truth: Money is designed, and that design matters. We've learned this because in distributed networks such as the internet and on social media platforms where everyone can connect to each other, there is nevertheless an invisible architecture.
Negative interest. Capitalism and the Common Good. By David Korten PDF Format Audio as produced and broadcast by Alternative Radio Inaugural Lecture, The Wayne Morse Center For Law And Politics 2011-2013 Inquiry on the theme “From Wall Street to Main Street: Capitalism and the Common Good,” University Of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, October 5, 2011 It is an honor and a privilege to be the inaugural speaker for this important and timely University of Oregon inquiry sponsored by the Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics. The theme—“From Wall Street to Main Street: Capitalism and the Common Good” frames exactly the inquiry we must engage as a nation—and as a species at this defining historical moment.
As we meet, citizens are mobilizing all around American in support of the Occupy Wall Street protest that provides a focal point for coalescing public anger at Wall Street’s unrelenting and unrepentant greed and corruption into an agenda for sweeping economic transformation. The U.S. economy is in shambles. Take an example. Communism is dead. Capitalism in crisis: In depth debate, commentary and analysis in an investigation from the Financial Times. 'Perpetual Growth Myth' Leading World to Meltdown: Experts. "The current system is broken," says Bob Watson, the UK’s chief scientific advisor on environmental issues and a winner of the prestigious Blue Planet prize in 2010.
"It is driving humanity to a future that is 3-5°C warmer than our species has ever known, and is eliminating the ecology that we depend on for our health, wealth and senses of self. " Smoke billows from burned trees. A collective of scientists and development thinkers have warned that civilisation faces an 'unprecedented emergency'. (Photograph: CRISTINA QUICKLER/AFP/Getty Images) "We cannot assume that technological fixes will come fast enough. Instead we need human solutions. The good news is that they exist but decision makers must be bold and forward thinking to seize them. " Civilization Faces 'Perfect Storm of Ecological and Social Problems' The Guardian's John Vidal reports: The paper urges governments to: A second UNEP report was also released today in Kenya.
Capital FM News in Kenya reports: Svenska nationalekonomer måste lyssna på naturvetare - Artikel av Niclas Ihrén. Niclas Ihrén är strategichef på konsultföretaget Respect, som arbetar med strategier för hållbar utveckling i samarbete med näringsliv, kommuner och myndigheter. Han är en av Sveriges mest anlitade rådgivare inom CSR-frågor. Han har forskarbakgrund inom hållbara energisystem och har också arbetat tillsammans med flera tankesmedjor kring hållbarhetsfrågor, bland annat Global Utmaning och Tällberg Foundation. I Dagens Industri (1/6) ger Finanspolitiska rådet svar på kritik från Naturvårdsverket kring behovet av att lyfta in miljöfrågor och klimatfrågor i deras analyser av långsiktiga effekter på svensk ekonomi. Rådets uppdrag är att bedöma om finanspolitiken är förenlig med långsiktigt hållbara offentliga finanser och bland annat att bedöma om finanspolitiken ligger i linje med god långsiktigt uthållig tillväxt samt leder till långsiktigt hållbar hög sysselsättning.
Utifrån detta uppdrag så är det ett minst sagt märkligt svar som rådets ordförande och vice ordförande ger. Äh... larv. Media lyssnar mer på ekonomer än på naturvetare - Artikel av Anders Wijkman. Problemet är att miljörörelsen sitter och diskuterar klimatförändringar som inte finns. Det är bättre att diskutera utarmning och utrotning som finns. USA gör rätt i att inte betala kalaset. Det är klart att feststämningen sjunker när pengarna tryter. Miljörörelsen borde diskutera: Fiskarnas utrotning Människornas ohämmade tillväxt. Regnskogens utrotning Permalänk | Anmäl u_19023, 2012-06-24, 08:20 Mitt i prick, som vanligt! Permalänk | Anmäl u_20369, 2012-06-24, 08:42 Vi ser allt mera av de tekniska lösningar som behövs för att växla in i en ny grön ekonomi. Det tråkiga är att vårt lands regering - om vi för en stund diskuterar Sverige - inte tar vara dessa möjligheter genom att skruva upp miljökraven lagstiftningsvägen.
Det är svårt att vinna över den gamla industrin, med sina budgetar i storlek som ofta överstiger nationalstater. Därutöver behöver vi också fundera över en ny livsstil, det räcker antagligen inte med ny teknik. Gigantiska industrifartyg dammsuger hela havet. #6 Andreas ! Our Most Widely Ignored Public Intellectuals. A prophet, says the Bible, is not without honor save in his own country. As the most prestigious economic dissenters of this era, Joseph Stiglitz and Paul Krugman form a category of two: astonishingly prescient, widely read, and largely ignored by those in power.
Both won Nobel Prizes for their early virtuoso technical economic work. Stiglitz’s research, starting in the late 1960s, showed that markets do not follow the standard economic model of efficient competition, because a buyer or seller often has access to privileged information. Stiglitz enriched the well-established idea that transactions have hidden costs or benefits to the wider society. Krugman, in the late 1970s, did pioneering research challenging the orthodox conception of international trade.
Both Stiglitz and Krugman are, in the somewhat overused term, public intellectuals. Each still spends substantial time teaching, Krugman at Princeton and Stiglitz at Columbia. Yet influence can be exerted in more than one way. 1. Of. How Americans view wealth and inequality. 20 August 2012Last updated at 00:19 ET Viewpoint by Dan Ariely Professor of behavioural economics, Duke University, USA Americans do not understand how wealth is distributed in their society There have been lots of questions and discussions recently about inequality and economists often argue about what is the right level of inequality to have in society.
But Mike Norton, professor at Harvard Business School, and I decided to take a different path and we decided to ask people what inequality they would want. Now, there are lots of ways to ask this question and we used the philosopher John Rawls. Rawls said that "a just society is a society that if you knew everything about it, you'd be willing to enter it in a random place". And it's really a beautiful definition. But in Rawls' definition, you don't know where you'll end up, you have to consider all the different options and therefore you have to think about what is good for society as a whole. Incomprehension And people don't understand it. Return to capitalism 'red in tooth and claw' spells economic madness | Robert Skidelsky | Business. As people in the developed world wonder how their countries will return to full employment after the global recession, it might benefit us to take a look at a visionary essay that John Maynard Keynes wrote in 1930, called Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren (pdf).
Keynes's General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money, published in 1936, equipped governments with the intellectual tools to counter the unemployment caused by slumps. In this earlier essay, however, Keynes distinguished between unemployment caused by temporary economic breakdowns and what he called "technological unemployment" – that is, "unemployment due to the discovery of means of economising the use of labour outrunning the pace at which we can find new uses for labour". Keynes reckoned that we would hear much more about this kind of unemployment in the future. But its emergence, he thought, was a cause for hope, rather than despair. At the same time, "technological unemployment" has risen.
Tim Jackson: Prosperity Without Growth. TEDxTC - Jonathan Foley - The Other Inconvenient Truth.
Green Economy. Circular economy. Alt currencies. Varför inte testa finansiell skatt? - Analys - E24. The Ingenesist Project — The Value Game – A New Class of Business Methods. Next Economy @fer_ananda. Seeking Sustainability: Creative Capitalism. The environmental and economic crises make it abundantly clear that we need an alternative to business as usual. Here are two approaches to developing a more sustainable economy. The first explores the shortcomings of the free market and the second leverages the strengths of capitalism. Current economic approaches have failed to reverse environmental degradation.
There are many reasons why we have thus far failed to address climate change. In addition to corporate influence and corruption, elements of capitalism have interfered with the creation of a sustainable economy. Some believe that sustainable capitalism is an oxymoron. Radical thinker David Korten has argued for an entirely new economic structure. Korten is an advocate of something known as ecological economics. Ecological economics is concerned with the organization and management of the human relationship to the biosphere. Korten believes that life, not money, must be the primary metric. This is not a new idea.
Growth. Tax and economic incentives. Occupy Wallstreet. Agenda for a New Economy: 2nd edition : YES! Magazine, Supporting you in building a just and sustainable world. Agenda for a New Economy: From Phantom Wealth to Real Wealth David C. Korten Paperback, 2nd Edition, August 2010, 288 pages List Price: $19.95. Price: $15.95 (You Save 20%) And eligible for FREE Shipping on orders of $25 or more. Nearly two years after the economic meltdown joblessness and foreclosures are still endemic, Wall Street executives are once again getting massive bonuses, and there doesn’t seem to be the will in Washington to make desperately needed fundamental changes to the economy.
In this revised and updated edition Korten offers more in-depth advice on how to mount a grassroots campaign to bring about an economy based on locally-owned, community-oriented "living enterprises," whose success is measured as much by their positive impact on people and the environment as by their positive balance sheet. 2011 Independent Publisher Book Award silver medalist. You Might Also Be Interested In: The David Korten Book Set. Jeremy Rifkin - Can we prevent the end of the world in 50 years? (English, Dutch subs) - Part 1. Jeremy Rifkin's exclusive interview (2/3) Jeremy Rifkin's exclusive interview (3/3) Transparence.
Economics. Den blinda fläcken | Världen. ”Koll på cashen”. Det är det käcka namnet på ett utbildningsprojekt som ett antal myndigheter har startat för att öka gymnasieungdomars kunskap om ekonomi. En förhoppning är att minska antalet kids som travar ut i livet som nybakade sms-låneslavar. Men frågan är om inte behovet av elementär cashkunskap är ännu mer skriande i vuxenvärlden. De senaste åren har folkvalda i Europa tvingats lära sig bokstavskombinationer som CDS, ESM, EFSF och CDO. Pengar som saknas, pengar som ska sparas, pengar som måste lånas. Detta debatteras dagligen. LÄS MER Fler artiklar av Andreas Cervenka Men ställ en slumpvist utvald parlamentariker mot väggen och fråga: ”hur görs pengar?” Till läsare som så här dags börjar gäspa och anar onödig repetition av redan självklara kunskaper: hatten av! Så hur fungerar det då? Mer än 95 procent av alla pengar skapas i och av privata banker.
En vanlig uppfattning är att banker tar kunders sparpengar och lånar ut dessa till andra kunder. Dessa spärrar har fungerat dåligt.