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Michael Green has worked in international finance for nearly twenty years, formerly as a senior official in the British government and now as an independent writer and economist.

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The Year of Controversial Giving

16 Comments | Posted January 2, 2012 | 18:01:00 (EST)

What does 2012 have in store for giving, especially the impact-driven approach to it we call "philanthrocapitalism"? Having peered into our philanthrocrystal ball, we see giving becoming more dangerous, more controversial, and more political, among other things, as philanthrocapitalists find themselves at the centre of some of the year's biggest...

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The Art of the Posse-able

Posted September 19, 2011 | 17:42:41 (EST)

If you want a model for how the world can solve its most pressing problems in the 21st century, it is the posse. As governance systems go, the Wild West approach of rounding up a few available hands and driving the bad guy out of town is certainly messy, but,...

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Is Corporate Social Responsibility Evil?

Posted July 19, 2010 | 21:53:32 (EST)

Is corporate social responsibility to blame for the oil spill in the Gulf or for the meltdown of the global financial system in late 2008? This accusation has been made by our friend Chrystia Freeland, the editor at large of Thomson Reuters, in the Washington Post.

While it...

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'The Road From Ruin': 10 Ways You Can Fix The Economy And Build Popular Capitalism

Posted April 5, 2010 | 09:25:37 (EST)

"Main Street America has to take the lead in getting our economy in shape for the next fifty years": that was the rallying cry of our first post in this series.

Given the dire state of the US economy and the political paralysis on financial reform in Washington, it...

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'The Road From Ruin': Are We Naive Idiots For Thinking Business Can Be Anything But Greedy?

Posted March 25, 2010 | 08:30:37 (EST)

"Idiotic" is how one Amazon reviewer of "The Road From Ruin" describes our idea that values can be put back into capitalism. Happily that reviewer otherwise loves the book. Yet we were struck that so many Huffington Post readers who commented on our opening article were also skeptical that business...

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'The Road From Ruin': Would Dodd's Solutions Create More Useless Bureaucracy (Think Homeland Security)?

Posted March 19, 2010 | 08:37:45 (EST)

Arianna loves most of the ideas in our book, "The Road From Ruin," with one notable exception: she thinks we are not in favor of the "muscular regulation" of finance that she thinks is essential. We think a better way to characterize our position is that massive regulatory reform is...

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The Road From Ruin: Wake Up, You Can Fix This Financial Mess

Posted March 11, 2010 | 07:49:05 (EST)

President Obama hit the nail on the head when he called the economic crisis "a great opportunity," yet so far it is one that America is wasting. Eighteen months ago, Lehman Brothers went bust and trillions of dollars of taxpayers' money was used to save the banking system. It seemed...

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