Musings on responsible market reforms
Hazel Henderson writes on the great disappointment that self-interested "market reforms" have brought us: the increasing income gap, the selling off of state assets, loss of jobs, and irresponsible treatment of communities and their environments. True market reform would make businesses responsible for the consequences of their actions. Charitable foundations investing in businesses which contradict their charitable goals (such as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation) are now outmoded by socially responsible investments (such as the Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation). more