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  • 19 January 2011
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    GCPH Seminar Series 7 Lecture 2 - Hazel Henderson

    Location: Teacher Building, Glasgow, G1 4DB
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    Transforming finance: recognising the global financial system as a commons

    At the seminar, speaking from Florida via webcast, Hazel discussed the implications of recognising global finance as a commons for re-structuring our current global casinos.  She explored how to restore the purpose of finance as serving the real economies of the world, as well as the principles that should guide finance in the service of people and planet and outline the limits of markets and money itself. She examined how best to defend the global commons: atmosphere, oceans, biodiversity, etc from inappropriate market penetration and protect human rights, especially those of indigenous peoples in non-market societies and their traditional cultures and lands. Her seminar also raised possible implications of socially responsible investing at the local level.

    A variety of outputs relating to this event are now available:

    Documents
    Presentation slides - PPT
    Seminar summary - PDF

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    Hazel Henderson is the founder of Ethical Markets Media, LLC, and the creator and executive co-producer of its TV series. A futurist and evolutionary economist, she has written several books, including the Axiom and Nautilus award-winning Ethical Markets: Growing the Green Economy (2006).
    http://www.hazelhenderson.com/