Editorial Vol. 1.4
by Martin Scott
With this fourth magazine, I will have successfully moved all the articles from the original forum. That forum (and now this magazine) was designed to help us explore how to interact with the gates of society. Hopefully it presents perspectives and when there are different viewpoints expressed that the differences will only help enrich rather [...]
Is the stock market evil?
by Martin Scott
Issues of finance, ‘making money work’ for us and the like is very problematic to discuss. There is a minefield of facts, figures and conflicting ideologies. So this is simply a starter discussion. A basic understanding of shares in public companies in theory makes them accountable to the shareholders. So far so good… however, in [...]
Business Productivity and Employment – the real challenge to capitalism?
by Nigel Dutson
The headlines inspiring the Occupy Wall Street protestors currently (and inspiring many blog posts here) have much to do with increasing income disparity that is apparent in most parts of the world presently. It is clear that the proportion of total income going to the richest ten percent or so has risen sharply over the [...]
Business Values
by Martin Scott
I was reading a post by Prabhu Guptara regarding the values taught (and needing challenging) by business schools. It is from a lecture on ‘The role of business schools in promoting values in business’. Here is a substantial part from the closing part of the post (found at:
At what cost?
by Andy Knox
Just wanted to throw some thoughts out there about the health cost of some current business practice. We all know of the Erin Brockovich type stories, where big companies have had detremental effects on the health of whole communities and ecosystems and how this continues to happen all over the place. As a GP, I [...]
The coming energy crisis?
by Tim
This is a topic that has been on my mind for some time. It is a very strategic issue, in that the key factors may not come in to play for some time, or may not combine in a world-changing way for some time, but sooner or later they will and the effects will be [...]
How much do you earn and why?
by Nigel Dutson
There has been some discussion on these boards regarding disconnect between what some people get paid and the contribution they make to society. I thought the article by John Kay in todays FT might be interesting to some of you. Full article here ft.com. Extract: “Two broad economic theories describe the allocation of income and [...]
Abortion and mental health
by Andy Knox
Well worth a read of Dyfed’s blog on this subject. It continues to be an ethical minefield that causes cockles to rise on both sides of the fence. On the point of mental health post abortion, some argue that it is the guilt put onto ladies who have had an abortion by the pro-lifers that [...]
Medicalisation….
by Andy Knox
The last president of the RCGP, Dr Iona Heath wrote an amazing article in 1999 called ‘The Medicalisation of Human Grief’. In it, she critiqued how when people are grieving, or sad about how life is, we are often all too quick to diagnose depression and try and cover things over with an antidepressant. She [...]
Education: interview with Sue Mitchell
by Martin Scott
Here is an interview with Sue Mitchell that focuses on the gate of education, and then a well publicised video clip on changing education paradigms by Ken Robinson.
