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Quote of the Day Fresh quotes Topics Authors I'm Feeling Lucky Disable ads! 77 quotes by Noreena Hertz The Silent Takeover (2001)[edit] In The Silent Takeover: Global Capitalism and the Death of Democracy Hertz warned that unregulated markets, corporate greed, and over-powerful financial institutions would have serious global consequences that would impact most heavily on the ordinary citizen. Hertz received a record six-figure advance from Random House for the book which, in pre-publicity, she promised would "make economics sexy." Although the... Read full biography of Noreena Hertz → 1 2 3 4 5 6 Ctrl → All of us show bias when it comes to what information we take in. We typically focus on anything that agrees with the outcome we want. 0 Transparency, accountability and sustainability have become the slogans of the market leaders. Companies carry out environmental and social audits to... → 0 All company bosses want a policy on corporate social responsibility. The positive effect is hard to quantify, but the negative consequences of a... → 0 Governments have been ceding power to big multinational corporations in the market. We see the manifest in a variety of ways. Where governments are... → 0 It's actually very surprising how little we think about the quality of our decision-making and how we could improve it. How absent... → 0 Get into the habit of imagining an alternate scenario. By posing such 'imagine if' questions... we can distance ourselves from the frames... → 0 If somebody tweets 'I like Coca-Cola,' does that mean that they're actually going to buy Coca-Cola? One can? Two cans? Three cans? If... → 0 I try to take a weekly digital Sabbath, batch my emails so I deal with them a few times a day rather than constantly, and increasingly give myself... → 0 Rather than empowering all, consumer and shareholder activism gives greatest voice to those with the most money in their pockets, those who can... → 0 When Apple introduced its game-changing iPhone in 2007, Nokia was caught sleeping on the job. Although it had actually developed an iPhone-style... → 0 Most of us are going through life without interrogating whether our decision-making processes are fit for purpose. And that's something we need... → 0 Debt vultures are really the scum at the bottom of the pond. These are guys who buy up the debts of the world's poorest countries on the... → 0 The global policy shift toward neo-liberalism that took place during the 1980s and 1990s was supposed, according to its proponents, to bring a... → 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 Ctrl → Add a quote!


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