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Peter Burgess
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Peter Burgess
OWS ... the health issue
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Dear Colleagues
This is an interesting question ... but a better question is can we change business? If not, Why Not?
I am not against business, and entrepreneurship and markets and all that ... but the evidence is that a lot has changed since these ideas were popularized by Adam Smith in his famous book published in 1776.
Perhaps the biggest change is in productivity. The way science and technology has changed our capacity to produce the goods and services we need is quite amazing. Compared to years past, we hardly need labor any more as the (man)power of production. This ought to be the best thing since sliced bread, but what it means is that if the old money profit driven laissez faire capitalist market system is to be the driver than unemployment on a massive scale will be the result.
I argue that business decision making should be driven not only by the money profit and cash flow, but also by the social impact performance. Getting the world's resources to be deployed to make society and the world a better place would be pretty amazing, but this is not going to happen unless the normative metrics are about value as much as they are about money.
Stay tuned. Peter Burgess TrueValueMetrics
http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_pallotta_the_way_we_think_about_charity_is_dead_wrong.html?goback=%2Egde_1913772_member_221686104
Tom Philpott on bpa
http://www.motherjones.com/tom-philpott/2013/03/bpa-harmless-not-so-fast Tom Philpott on coprn agriculture ... and useful comments
http://www.motherjones.com/tom-philpott/2013/03/corn-domiated-us-agriculture-less-efficient-bangladeshs
http://www.transaction.net/money/timedollars/index.html
http://www.transaction.net/money/timedollars/index.html
http://www.naturallifemagazine.com/0810/building_your_sustainable_home_1.htm
http://www.eebhub.org/media/files/eebhub_reports_energy-market.pdf
http://www.keystonehelp.com/themes/site_themes/keystonehelp/pdfs/single_measure_unsecured-improvements.pdf
http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/countingthecost/2013/02/201321612043800534.html See Burgess comment and many more interesting comments
http://about.1bog.org/careers/ This was a surprise!
http://cleantechnica.com/2013/02/17/why-german-solar-is-so-much-cheaper-than-u-s-solar-updated-study/
http://jembendell.wordpress.com/2012/11/25/seeking-transformation-study-for-an-interdisciplinary-phd-at-the-institute-for-leadership-and-sustainability/