This publication documents the proceedings of the Second South Asia Judicial Roundtable on Environmental Justice, held on 30-31 August 2013 in Thimphu, Bhutan. It brought together chief justices, senior judges, and experts from various fields to consider common environmental challenges in the region, share experiences, and discuss opportunities for cooperation between judiciaries to enhance environmental adjudication and enforcement. The recomme ...
For nearly 300 years, capitalism propelled the world's most successful economies to new heights of development. But a spate of global environmental disasters and severe economic crises compels thinkers to question whether the system continues to function. Leveraging historical perspective, extensive research, and case studies, The Crises of Capitalism builds a compelling argument that challenges the most fundamental assumptions of prevailin ...
America has survived an economic near-disaster. While the state of employment and housing will one day improve, we will never return to the delusional prosperity that defined the first decade of the 21st century. Progressives should hold the key to quality of life in our coming post-consumerist society, but today Democrats have become timid, our vision of the good life marginalized by three decades of partisan attacks and the think tank-induced ...
First written in French and originally appearing as a series of articles in 1892, “The Conquest of Bread” is the most famous and enduring work by Peter Kropotkin, the Russian political philosopher and anarchist. In this widely influential and often cited work, Kropotkin presents his arguments against feudalism and capitalism. These economic systems rely on and perpetuate poverty, misery, and scarcity, while protecting and promoting the privilege ...
First published in 1879, “Progress and Poverty” is the ground-breaking treatise on the relationship between industrialization and poverty by Henry George, the American social theorist and economist. A huge commercial success when it was published and one of the best-selling books in America in the late 19th century, George’s work had a profound influence on economists, politicians, and social reformers all over the world. In “Progress and Povert ...
The most important issue in economics is why some nations are wealthy while others are poor. Providing policymakers and advocates with the answer to this question can help to raise living standards and reduce poverty throughout the world. ...
Choosing the most effective means of saving and investing for retirement health care costs makes a meaningful difference on the quality of your retirement years. Traditional approaches to financial planning should be modified in order to best prepare. Peter Stahl, is a certified financial planner and president of Bedrock Business Results. ...
The degree and speed of change facing organisations is imposing a massive and re-learning agenda. Workers need to learn at the speed of business if their organisations are to survive and thrive. Speed to competence and speed to delivery of business objectives are critical elements in this mix. This publication sets out to explain an approach to organisational learning that has caught the imagination of many leaders, HR Directors and Chie ...
