Ron
   Robins
     MBA

 Founder
& Analyst

Media Coverage of Investing for the Soul

• Report on Business Television's Business Morning

• CBS MarketWatch

• The Financial Post

• Rogers Television's Money Line

• CBC Radio One's Metro Morning

• 680 News Radio

• New Directions Magazine

• Environmental News Network Radio

• The Catholic Register
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Editorials

• Retiring the GDP (Gross Domestic Product)

• The Media & Government Statistics

• Unethical US Job Numbers?

• Unethical Statistics – the US consumer price index?

Shareholder Values

UK investors asked: "How important do you think it is for companies to take social, environmental and ethical issues seriously? Some 47% of those surveyed replied ‘very seriously’ and a further 40% ‘fairly seriously.'"
-- F&C Investments
    (UK) January 2007

84% of Canadian shareholders agreed with this statement: "[The] financial community should pay more attention to social and environmental performance when valuing companies."
-- GlobeScan
    (Canada) February 2004

Books - Concerning Economic Measurement,
GDP, & Economics

Other categories:

• Ethical Investing

• Environmental Sustainability & Social Performance In Business

• Spiritually Related & Spirituality Information

• Books - By Topic

Below is a select list of books that not only imbibe the spirit of Investing for the Soul, but also are highly informative and inspirational. The titles are linked to booksellers (mostly Amazon.com) where they may be purchased. Investing for the Soul receives commissions on some book sales.

The New Indicators of Well-Being and Development, by Jean Gadrey and Florence Jany-Catrice, Palgrave Macmillan 2007.
"The growth of GDP remains the principal focus of attention when it comes to judging the progress of the 'wealth of nations' ...New indicators of development, well being, social health or ecological footprint are presented in this volume as alternative methods of re-assessing the growing gap between well being and 'more having'. They show that ongoing growth might destroy vital natural resources and has already begun this depletion." - Book description.

The Growth Illusion, by Richard Douthwaite, New Society Publishers 1999.
A radical perspective on present day economics by a knowledgeable, but controversial economist. He calls for a replacement of the Gross Domestic Product measure with something that accounts for environmental responsibility and true material well-being. He calls it the Index of Sustainable Economic Welfare (ISEW). It is stimulating reading.

Democracy at Risk: Rescuing Main Street from Wall Street—A Populist Vision for the 21st Century, by Jeff Gates, Perseus Books 2000.
A book rich with economic and social data about modern America, giving the impression that the United States is a long way from real democracy in its economy.