Finance Should Serve Society

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Regulators, policymakers, and commercial bankers are the insiders who define American financial structure, and others are effected tremendously by their decisions-especially when reckless short-termism such as oil speculation negatively impacts their assets. In this program Hazel Henderson talks with banker Steve Waddell, author of Societal Learning and Change, about steering modern economics away from what they call a greed-based system to one that allows "outsiders" to have a voice, and that serves the common good. Waddell and Henderson also challenge the assumption that human nature is based on self-interest, and conclude that poverty, trade wars, and resource depletion are not necessarily inevitable.

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29 min

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[2011], c2010

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