Reimagining Investment for the Whole Human

Reimagining Investment for the Whole Human

Our ideas about financial investment have been fairly
limited thus far. Investment has been all about maximizing financial
return at any cost, even if that cost is environmental pollution, human
dignity, or our moral compass. Our economy has focused narrowly on
creating and spreading novelty, pushing the concepts of tradition,
conservation, and values to realms outside of the market.



Tim Jackson delivers a piercing talk about how the role of investment
must be reconceived not to create even more money or simply cater to the
novelty-seeking tendencies of the privileged but to instead create
conditions for people to flourish. "Investment is nothing more nor less
than a relationship between a shared past and a common future." In our
common future, the role of money ought to be to maximize the human
return on investment -- and that requires first that we understand what
it means to be fully human.