By Otto Scharmer — 2013
Two words summarize the shortcomings of mainstream economics: externalities and consciousness. The solution to global crises begins between our ears.
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Four years ago, I opposed reparations. Here's the story of how my thinking has evolved since then.
Black women are 37 cents behind men in the pay gap—in other words, for every dollar a man makes, black women make 63 cents.
A lack of support splits parents into warring factions. Here’s what could stop the fighting.
Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal. Thirty-five years of racist housing policy. Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole.
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Just one day after Mitch McConnell spoke out against reparations for slavery, author Ta-Nehisi Coates passionately argued in favor of them at a House hearing on the topic.
The biggest question that Jared Diamond is asking himself is how to turn the study of history into a science.