For close to one-and-a-half hours this week, U.S. Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis sat patiently, and deeply engaged, as she listened to the challenges and o
Yesterday, Matt Madia, a policy analyst at OMB Watch, Robert Weissman, president at Public Citizen, Peter Iwanowicz of the American Lung Association, and I part
Fighting Democracy and Destroying America’s Economic Future This has been quite a year for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, a year of blunders as well as success
I landed last week in a somewhat unusual place for someone like me: the annual meeting of the American Economics Association (AEA) in Denver. While en route to
This is the time of year when all the pundits, journalists, forecasters and owners of crystal globes issues their predictions. Mine are not very rosy! We’ll s
I believe in an America committed to the democratic ideal of government of the people, by the people and for the people. That’s why, on Friday, January 21, 20
Innovation Inspired by Nature. Janine Benyus one of sustainability’s most brilliant minds developed the idea of Biomimicry. Biomimicry is the rather simple id
Creating a Caring Economics Riane Eisler Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2007 Great books are few and far between, but go out and get this one. A review from The Ba
The Inner Path of Leadership Joseph Jaworski and Betty S. Flowers Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 1998 “One of the most important roles we can play individually o
Peter M. Senge, C. Otto Scharmer, Joseph Jaworski, Betty S. Flowers Bantam Dell Publishing Group, 2008 This is probably the best and most important book I’ve
How It Will Be Created and How It Will Change Our Lives Alvin and Heidi Toffler Currency/Doubleday, 2007 In their most recent book, the Tofflers describe a huge
Why Corporations Are Failing Individuals And The Next Episode Of Capitalism Shoshana Zuboff and James Maxmin Viking, 2002 This book articulates the growing divi
