Author. Advisor. Catalyzer.
Denise explains how economic power and paradigms shape our world.
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Living Inside Long Time in the Age of Rapid-Fire Chaos
I’ve always had a sense of long time. From a young age, I acutely felt my smallness in a giant universe. It was scary, disorienting, and sad. But also rich with possibility. A good kind of humbling, even if I didn't know it at the time.
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Distinguishing Among Climate Change-Related Risks
This document outlines three main categories of climate-related risks: planetary, economic, and financial, detailing their relevance to various stakeholders, timeframes, and potential response strategies.
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What Economists Can Learn from Starlings
What can starlings, consciousness, and mimetic desire teach economists. “Complexity economics sees the economy not as mechanistic, static, timeless and perfect but as organic, always creating itself, alive and full of messy vitality.”
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The Antitrust Theories Are Weak, but the Effects Can Be Chilling on Corporate Collaboration for Climate Action
As the private sector has become increasingly engaged in the effort to combat climate change, debates have emerged about the impact and legality of collaboration among firms – particularly those in the same industry.
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The Roll-up Economy: The Business of Consolidating Industries with Serial Acquisitions
There is a massive, hidden force shaping the economy in the shadows. Learn how serial acquisitions affect everything from sunglasses to your local dentist.
The Big Fix
"An essential primer to the most important economic issue facing Canadians and the world: will our lives be shaped by democratically accountable lawmakers sitting in open parliaments, or by corporate executives sitting in smoke-filled rooms?"
– Cory Doctorow
author of The Internet Con and How To Destroy Surveillance Capitalism
The Myth of Capitalism
"This is a truly important book. Read, learn and act."
– Martin Wolf
Chief Economics Commentator , Financial Times
Financial Times Best Book of 2018
Endorsed by two Nobel Prize-winning economists
Long Now Talk:
How our Economic Stories Shape the World
Featured Writing
ANTITRUST, ENVIRONMENT, COLLABORATION
This report – a joint publication of the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law – gives an overview of the broad purview of antitrust law, and the myriad and complex ways in which it intersects with and affects sustainability goals.
Antitrust and Sustainability:
A Landscape Analysis
NATURE, ECONOMICS, VALUES, FINANCE
Similar to how scientists have no unified definition of life, economists (and policymakers and the rest of us) have no universal definition of economic value, but what we do and do not ascribe value to in the economy shapes everything about our existence.
What is life? What is economic value?
Embodied Economics
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