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Global sustainability reporting standards: on the threshold of a new era of internationally coherent regulation? (For the World’s Profit, Chapter 9)
Brookings Institution Press
Chapter on the current state and future prospects of corporate sustainability reporting standards in a Brookings edited volume about the role of the private sector in advancing international development and the SDGs.
Blog Post
Financial Times recognizes my book as one of the best of 2024 on Economics
Martin Wolf, the dean of international economics commentators, kindly bestowed this distinction upon my book, Human-Centred Economics: The Living Standards of Nations, which proposes a fundamental reformulation of prevailing macroeconomic theory and policy.
Presentation/Infographic
Human Capital, Productivity and Inclusiveness: Towards a Whole-of-Economic-Policy Approach to Better Sharing the Benefits of Productivity Growth
Intl Labour Organization (ILO), OECD
Presentation supporting remarks delivered at the annual Global Forum on Productivity hosted by the OECD and French government, 2024.
Blog Post
US economy underperforming peers on middle class living standards
Compared to other high-income countries, the US lags on many dimensions of household living standards.
Blog Post
International financial architecture reform worthy of the hackneyed ‘Bretton Woods’ analogy
Remarks proposing deep reforms necessary to adapt the IMF and multilateral development banks to 21st century circumstances and imperatives. Delivered at Tsinghua University Peoples Bank of China School of Finance conference marking the 80th anniversary of the famous 1944 conference in New Hampshire.
Blog Post, Podcast
Podcast with Lord Robert Skidelsky: How can macroeconomics answer the call for greater social justice?
A podcast discussion with Lord Robert Skidelsky, the eminent economic historian and macroeconomist. Audio only.
Presentation/Infographic
Towards a Bretton Woods-like reinvention of the international economic architecture for the 21st century
Int'l Labour Organization (ILO)
Presentation supporting remarks on reform of the international financial architecture at a conference in Hangzhou, China marking the 80th anniversary of the Bretton Woods conference that created the IMF and World Bank. Organized by Tsinghua University Peoples Bank of China School of Finance and the Reinventing Bretton Woods Committee, May 2024.
Presentation/Infographic
AI and Work: Opportunities, challenges and the need for governance
ILO, UN High Level Advisory Body on AI
Presentation supporting opening remarks delivered at special meeting of the United Nations High Level Advisory Body on Artificial Intelligence at ILO headquarters. Elaborates likely labor market and broader macroeconomic implications of artificial intelligence and machine learning.
Blog Post
Adam Smith was a heterodox economist by modern standards
The modern pedagogy of Economics betrays the more balanced and socially-embedded model of economic growth and development framed by the field's most influential original theorists and codifiers in their 18th and 19th century treatises. See Chapter 3 of Human-Centred Economics: The Living Standards of Nations.
Blog Post
What the ESG backlash gets wrong
Properly conceived and rigorously implemented, it is about nothing more or less than good corporate governance, i.e., the core fiduciary responsibility of boards to cultivate their enterprise's value creation.