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Nov 23, 2021

The Friedman Doctrine, Revisited.

Reconciling Milton Friedman with corporate social responsibility In September 1970, The New York Times Magazine published an op-ed by economist Milton Friedman entitled “A Friedman doctrine — The Social Responsibility Of Business Is to Increase Its Profits.“ The article sowed the seeds of neoliberalism, the dominant theory driving corporate decision…

Economics

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The Friedman Doctrine, Revisited.
The Friedman Doctrine, Revisited.
Economics

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Oct 2, 2021

Burning Man and Decommodification: The Sotheby’s Auction Edition

Last week, Burning Man launched an auction with Sotheby’s called Boundless Space: The Possibilities of Burning Man. First and foremost, the auction is an effort to raise funds for the organization, which is unsurprisingly facing financial challenges after cancelling its flagship event two years in a row. …

Burning Man

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Burning Man and Decommodification: The Sotheby’s Auction Edition
Burning Man and Decommodification: The Sotheby’s Auction Edition
Burning Man

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Sep 12, 2021

The Story and Meaning Behind Denizen

Early in the pandemic, I began organizing a weekly salon for a handful of intellectually curious friends. …

Capitalism

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Capitalism

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The Startup

·Sep 20, 2020

Establishing a Healthy Approach to Inclusion

The heart and soul of Dent, a growing community that I steward, is the civil discourse that takes place twice a week in the Dent Forum. Our inquiry focuses on the values and incentives that underlie our economic, political, and cultural institutions. In many ways, Dent is modeled after The…

Inclusive Leader

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Establishing a Healthy Approach to Inclusion
Establishing a Healthy Approach to Inclusion
Inclusive Leader

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Sep 11, 2020

What is Dent?

Twice a week, I host a conversation called the Dent Forum. I liken it to a grad school seminar meets a live podcast, where we explore important topics such as capitalism and inequality, universal basic income, and social media and democracy. It started in June with me organizing a few…

Social Change

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What is Dent?
What is Dent?
Social Change

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The Startup

·Sep 7, 2020

Lessons in Inclusive Leadership

I learned a two important lessons about inclusive leadership this past week; the first obvious, the second less so. Last Thursday, I hosted a spirited panel discussion about Free Speech and Content Moderation on Social Media as part of the Dent Forum I organize twice a week on Clubhouse. There…

Leadership

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A Lesson in Inclusive Leadership
A Lesson in Inclusive Leadership
Leadership

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Jul 28, 2020

Taming the Evolutionary Beast

On the interdependency of economic, political, and cultural institutions Born out of a movement of individualism, capitalism is ingenious in many ways. Through labor specialization, private ownership, and the pursuit of self interest — markets coordinate production and consumption for billions of people around the world. Capitalism is an enabler…

Capitalism

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Taming the Evolutionary Beast
Taming the Evolutionary Beast
Capitalism

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The Startup

·Jul 22, 2020

Accelerating Stakeholder Capitalism

What does real reform look like, and how can the pandemic entrench it? It appears that we’ve reached a tipping point in the shift towards stakeholder capitalism. …

Capitalism

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Accelerating Stakeholder Capitalism
Accelerating Stakeholder Capitalism
Capitalism

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Jul 10, 2020

Shareholder Optimization and the Degradation of Democratic and Economic Institutions

One of my biggest learnings from my recent research on capitalism and inequality is the extent to which corporate capture of government has contributed to the extreme inequality we see today. This is counter to the common narrative that inequality has been driven largely from an embrace of neoliberalism (i.e…

Capitalism

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Shareholder Optimization and the Degradation of Institutions
Shareholder Optimization and the Degradation of Institutions
Capitalism

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The Startup

·Jul 10, 2020

Capitalism and Inequality

A starting point for a broader inquiry on reforming our economic institutions. The United States has the highest income inequality of all post-Industrial economies, reaching a record high in 2018 when for the first time in US history, billionaires paid a lower effective tax rate than the working class (23%…

Capitalism

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Capitalism and Inequality
Capitalism and Inequality
Capitalism

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Jenny Stefanotti

Jenny Stefanotti

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Steward and Curator at Denizen. https://www.becomingdenizen.com / IG: @developingjen

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