Comments on: Societal costs and pure economics http://openambition.com/2009/07/02/the-complexity-of-societal-costs-and-pure-economics/ The juncture of success and meaningful failure Wed, 04 May 2011 22:41:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Peter Zaballos http://openambition.com/2009/07/02/the-complexity-of-societal-costs-and-pure-economics/#comment-218 Fri, 03 Jul 2009 04:58:17 +0000 http://meaningfulfailure.wordpress.com/2009/07/02/the-complexity-of-societal-costs-and-pure-economics/#comment-218 Thanks for your comment Kelly Jo, and you sharpen the focus more than I could or did in my post. We are at this unique point in time where we’re all re-assessing our values, taking a broader view of our interests than in the ’90s and the last few years. Moving from a consumption-focused society to whatever it is that replaces it seems best done from a broader perspective than the simple financial considerations. We’re all employed to make money, it may be that we’re at a juncture where the “externalities” will really matter in the considerations of how to allocate capital, and how to run our businesses.

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Spot on framing of the issues. As you know, I think that we have not only the opportunity at this unique point in time, but also the responsibility, to ask these hard questions and to at least consider that are different ways to value the potential outcome and to effect long-term broader societal progress. I especially like your conclusion :) -KJ

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