Ethical Markets share: Dr. Hazel Henderson, CEO ©2019 www.ethicalmarkets.com
As so many of us watch our representatives meeting at the United Nations (UN) this week, many of us, particularly in the USA, yearn to restore norms of behavior we learned as children from caring parents and teachers: the simple guidelines of the GOLDEN RULE: treat and respect each other as we wish to be treated.
This GOLDEN RULE is also at the core of most of the world’s great religious and spiritual traditions. Yet in the rush to industrialize and grow as economics textbooks taught, by growing according to the money-based GDP and all its market statistics about maximizing “efficiency” of production, this omitted all the dis-economies, dis-services and dis-amenities to those in the rural, unpaid and voluntary service “Love Economies“, while ignoring the fundamental life-supporting services of Nature.
Economists ruled the world with their pretensions to scientific exactitude, even lobbying the Nobel committee to set up the phony Bank of Sweden Prize in Memory of Alfred Nobel, now rejected by his descendants in today’s Nobel family.
