Governments, Not Markets, Impel ESG
By Allen Mendenhall and Daniel Sutter From obscure academic topic to major campaign issue, ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) investing has erupted onto the political…
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Climate “Reparations” Numbers Are Rigged
By Paul Mueller Nobel Prize–winning economist Esther Duflo thinks rich countries should pay poor countries $500 billion in compensation each year for climate-change damages. It…
Stakeholder Statism is Coming
By Richard M. Reinsch II A unification of forces has produced the array of Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) policies that have fervently emerged across…
ESG Puppeteers
By Paul Mueller The Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) framework allows a small group of corporate executives, financiers, government officials, and other elites, the ESG…
Business Schools Undermine Wealth Creation
By Kimberlee Josephson Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has been widely embraced within academic business programming since the early 2000s. The trendy appeal of Bono’s Buy…
ESG Frustration And Backlash In The Banking Sector Continues
By Tyler Durden “Facts that don’t align with ill-informed prejudice are often infuriating. That doesn’t make them wrong. Someone needs to tell the truth about…
A Short Guide to ESG: Conclusions
By Paul Mueller As I conclude this series depicting the ESG landscape, let me clarify a few of my conclusions. I’ve tried to keep my…
A Short Guide to ESG: Philosophical Problems
By Paul Mueller In addition to Economic Problems and Political Problems, philosophical objections to ESG abound but are rarely addressed by its advocates. Besides largely…
A Short Guide to ESG: Political Problems
By Paul Mueller Whether the political dimensions of ESG are features or bugs depends on your perspective. From the perspective of ordinary citizens, though, ESG…
A Short ESG Guide: Economic Problems
By Paul Mueller The Environmental, Social, and Governance movement has wrapped itself in the garb of justice. It is just as much a moral crusade…
A Short Guide to ESG: Legislation
By Paul Mueller Tracking and describing all ESG-related legislation falls well beyond the scope of this column (and this series) but surveying the legislative landscape…
Tennessee Slaps BlackRock With First-Of-Its-Kind Consumer Protection Lawsuit Over ESG Sham
By Tyler Durden Tennessee State Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti filed the first-of-its-kind consumer protection lawsuit against BlackRock, accusing the world’s largest “woke” money manager of…
A Short Guide to ESG: Finance
By Paul Mueller ESG has made significant inroads in the finance and investing community. Environmentalists have long used divestiture campaigns and impact investing to influence…
ESG, DEI, and the Rise of Fake Reporting
By Paul Frijters, Gigi Foster, Michael Baker We know that the modern West has developed a jaw-dropping degree of totalitarianism, wherein the bureaucracies of the…