Community is the purpose of business: the co-creation of wealth and value

I had the great joy of spending a wonderful time last week talking with Anant Nadkarni - Vice President, (Corporate Sustainability) of Indian giants Tata. Anant quoted Jamsetji Tata, the...

How to stay ethical during a downturn

How to stay ethical during a downturn: this was the theme of a talk given by Roger Steare, author of Ethicability, at Cass Business School in London on 26 November.

A Zero Carbon Economy

Till recently I used to think that smoking is by far the most irrational of all human habits. Why do millions of otherwise rational and intelligent people ignore overwhelming scientific evidence...

What is our human response to the financial crisis?

What is our human response to financial crisis and recession? They need moral as well as economic components, as the father of capitalism emphasised.

Keynes, Marx and Smith – the rebirth of policy as if economics and the real economy matter

“I should have saved my pennies like when I was just a kid, my piggy bank lasted longer than the bankers ever did” – a line taken from the Credit Crunch Anthem, one of a number You Tube...