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Green Swans
The Coming Boom in Regenerative Capitalism
JOHN ELKINGTON, RICHARD ROBERTS, AND LOUISE KJELLERUP ROPER
CURRENTLY, CAPITALISM IS OUR BEST HOPE of achieving anything like sustainability, circular economies, and systemic regeneration—but capitalism itself is under a dark cloud and deservedly so. “Capitalism is under threat,” concludes American economist Irwin Stelzer. Yet the growing calls for systemic change, he says, are too often ignored by capitalists who fail “to hear the sound of approaching tumbrils.” Over half of Americans aged twenty-three to thirty-eight “would prefer to live in a socialist (46%) or communist (6%) nation.” ...
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