Denise Hearn

Denise Hearn

Oct
31
Antitrust Regulators Probe Private Equity Board Seats

Antitrust Regulators Probe Private Equity Board Seats

Today is a short post on something I covered here last week - interlocking directorates. Interlocking directorates (overlapping board seats)
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Oct
26
Competition or Collaboration for a Greener Economy? – Part 2

Competition or Collaboration for a Greener Economy? – Part 2

In the first post of this series (Part 1), we discussed the following questions: Should companies be allowed to '
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Sep
30
[Recap] – Celebrating 1 year of Embodied Economics!

[Recap] – Celebrating 1 year of Embodied Economics!

One year ago, I launched this newsletter with excitement and some trepidation. There are so many brilliant writers and thinkers
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Sep
26
Competition or Collaboration for a Greener Economy? – Part 1

Competition or Collaboration for a Greener Economy? – Part 1

Should companies be allowed to 'collude' to reach net zero targets or other green economy goals? Are sustainability
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Sep
08
When Markets Fail

When Markets Fail

As Oscar Wilde once said, “The cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.” Today, decades of
7 min read
Jun
14
Proxy wars on corporate ‘wokeness’ are actually about something else...

Proxy wars on corporate ‘wokeness’ are actually about something else...

Concentrated private power and the decline of democratic agency are at the root of these proxy wars. But there'
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May
03
Stakeholder Capitalism's Next Frontier: Pro- or Anti-Monopoly?

Stakeholder Capitalism's Next Frontier: Pro- or Anti-Monopoly?

Today, I'm highlighting the just released paper — “Stakeholder Capitalism’s Next Frontier: Pro- or Anti-Monopoly?” — that I co-authored
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Apr
18
Paradigms Create Worlds — A New Foundation for Economics

Paradigms Create Worlds — A New Foundation for Economics

This week, I discuss a new paper co-authored by Dennis J. Snower, an economist, and David Sloan Wilson, an evolutionary
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Feb
10
The Downsides of Democratizing Access

The Downsides of Democratizing Access

Access isn't all it's cracked up to be. The narrative of "democratizing access" is
9 min read
Jan
21
What Economists can Learn from Starlings

What Economists can Learn from Starlings

What can starlings, consciousness, and mimetic desire teach economists? Happy New Year! This week, while driving over gritty downtown Seattle
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