St Paul's Report, Economic and Social Commentary

Other Resources

Baseline Scenario
http://baselinescenario.com/
The Baseline Scenario is a periodic overview of the current state of the global economy and our policy proposals. It includes two sections: (1) Analysis of the current situation and how we got here and (2) Policy proposals. One of the creators of the website is MIT Business School Prof. Simon Johnson former Chief Economist of the IMF.

The Caux Round Table
http://www.cauxroundtable.org/index.cfm?&menuid=110
The Caux Round Table was founded in 1986 by Frederick Phillips, former President of Philips Electronics and Olivier Giscard d'Estaing, former Vice-Chairman of INSEAD, as a means of reducing escalating trade tensions. At the urging of Ryuzaburo Kaku, then Chairman of Canon, Inc., the CRT began focusing attention on the importance of global corporate responsibility in reducing social and economic threats to world peace and stability. Its vision is for a world with rising living standards, social justice and human dignity for all. Its mission is to promote moral capitalism and responsible government to ensure greater prosperity, sustainability and fairness in a global economy.

The Round Table believes Moral Capitalism is the only system with the potential to reduce global poverty and tyranny and address the needs and aspirations of individuals, societies, and nations. As Stephen Young, the Executive Director of the Caux Round Table has written, the challenge of moral capitalism is to tip the balance of wealth creation toward humanity’s more noble possibilities and away from the dynamics of more brutish behavior”.

VoxEU
http://www.voxeu.org/
VoxEU.org is a policy portal set up by the Centre for Economic Policy Research in conjunction with a consortium of national sites. Vox aims to promote research-based policy analysis and commentary by leading scholars. Assistance for the Centre's work on Vox has been provided by the European Union.

EconPapers
http://econpapers.repec.org/
EconPapers use the RePEc bibliographic and author data, providing access to the largest collection of online Economics working papers and journal articles. The majority of the full text files are freely available, but some (typically journal articles) require that you or your organization subscribe to the service providing the full text file.

UNDP: The Economic Crisis
http://www.undp.org/economic_crisis/index.shtml
A special UNDP initiative that is reporting on and tracking the consequences of the economic crisis on the lives of those in the developing world.

ADB: Global Financial Crisis
http://www.adb.org/Financial-Crisis/default.asp
Provides an overview of the Global Financial Crisis from an Asian perspective and ADB's proposed responses

International Labour Organisation
http://www.ilo.org/public/english/support/lib/financialcrisis/
The International Labour Organization (ILO) is the tripartite UN agency that brings together governments, employers and workers of its member states in common action to promote decent work throughout the world. Refer to its review of press links on the global job crisis.

World Economic Forum
http://www.weforum.org/en/about/Our%20Organization/index.htm
The World Economic Forum is an independent, international organization incorporated as a Swiss not-for-profit foundation. It strives towards a world-class corporate governance system where values are as important a basis as rules to improve the state of the world. Its motto is ‘entrepreneurship in the global public interest’. It believes that economic progress without social development is not sustainable, while social development without economic progress is not feasible.

United Nations - Global Compact
http://www.unglobalcompact.org/
The Global Compact is a network that is working to bring companies together with UN agencies, labor and civil society to support nine principles in the areas of human rights, labor and the environment. Through the power of collective action, the Global Compact seeks to advance responsible corporate citizenship so that business can be part of the solution to the challenges of globalization.

LEAP 2020: GlobalEurope Resources Anticipation Bulletin
http://www.leap2020.eu/English_r25.html
A decision and analysis support website intended for those whose work involves some understanding of ongoing and future global trends seen from a European point of view. See also its free press clippings review of the global crisis (on home page). LEAP has anticipated a global systemic crisis, its calendar and its steps.

Financial Times – The Future Of Capitalism Series
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/ae1104cc-f82e-11dd-aae8-000077b07658.htm?ftcamp=Late_graphic1/NL/APMar2009/Cluster_1_foc/0/
The credit crunch has destroyed faith in the free market ideology that has dominated Western economic thinking for a generation. But what can – and should – replace it? Over the coming weeks FT is to conduct a wide-ranging debate on this dominant political issue of the day.

Refer to the FT interactive on 50 people who will frame the debate by Steven Bernard, Jeremy Lemer and FT Reporters http://www.ft.com/indepth/capitalism-future

Rethinking Finance (RF)
www.rethinkingfinance.org

RF: Bretton Woods Project
http://www.brettonwoodsproject.org/project/about.shtml
The Bretton Woods Project works as a watchdog to scrutinise and influence the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF). It monitors projects, policy reforms and the overall management of the Bretton Woods institutions with special emphasis on environmental and social concerns.

RF: Casino Crash
http://casinocrash.org/
Casino Crash is an initiative of the Transnational Institute in Amsterdam, Netherlands and the Institute of Policy Studies in Washington DC, USA. The aim of the blog is to provide a space for critical analysis of the financial crisis.

RF: Debtonation
http://debtonation.org/
Debtonation is a blog about the financial crisis written by Ann Pettifor, author and analyst of the global financial system, and co-author of the Green New Deal. She predicted an Anglo-American debt-deflationary crisis back in 2003, and is known for her work on sovereign debt and international finance, including Jubilee 2000. Currently she is a fellow of the New Economics Foundation and director of Advocacy International.

RF: Choike
http://www.choike.org/nuevo_eng/26/60/index.html
Choike is a portal dedicated to improving the visibility of the work done by NGOs and social movements from the South. This section of the site covers economic and financial issues.

Twine: Financial and Economic Global Crisis Posted Items
http://www.twine.com/twine/11xm9nxpj-gn/financial-and-economic-global-crisis/items

US Fed Reserve
News and Events
http://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents
Community Development
http://www.federalreserve.gov/communitydev

Australia Policy Online
http://www.apo.org.au/about.shtml
With over 170 member centres and institutes, Australian Policy Online offers easy access to much of the best Australian social, economic, cultural and political research available online. APO is maintained by the Institute for Social Research in the Faculty of Life and Social Sciences at Swinburne University of Technology.

New Zealand Institute
http://www.nzinstitute.org/
The New Zealand Institute is a privately funded think-tank that is committed to generating debate, ideas, and solutions that contribute to building a better and more prosperous New Zealand for all New Zealanders. The institute produces creative, provocative and independent thinking, focusing on key issues that have a major impact on New Zealand’s economic and social future, and engages with New Zealanders in order to develop solutions to address these issues.

Nation Building: (Aus Govt) Economic Stimulus Plan
http://www.economicstimulusplan.gov.au/about.htm
A website to devoted to providing full transparency to the Australian Government's economic stimulus plan.

Workplace Research Centre
http://www.wrc.org.au
Workplace Research Centre (formerly ACIRRT) is based at the University of Sydney. Its focus is the changing nature of work. Research relevant to work and family can be found on the website under Publications in Working Papers

Reserve Bank of Australia
Publications and Research
http://www.rba.gov.au/PublicationsAndResearch/
http://www.rba.gov.au/PublicationsAndResearch/StatementsOnMonetaryPolicy/
http://www.rba.gov.au/FinancialSystemStability/financial_publications.html
Speeches
http://www.rba.gov.au/Speeches/2009/index.html
Statistics Bulletins
http://www.rba.gov.au/Statistics/Bulletin/index.html

New Zealand Treasury
http://www.treasury.govt.nz/budget

New Zealand Reserve
Publications and Research
http://www.rbnz.govt.nz/finstab/fsreport
Speeches
www.rbnz.govt.nz/speeches/3568964.html

Infometrics (NZ)
http://www.infometrics.co.nz/
Infometrics offers a range of economic consulting and forecasting services on commercial terms to companies, business organisations and government departments. It has consistently provided good contemporary New Zealand economic analysis. Their home page is public but a subscription is required for the substance.

New Economics Foundation
www.neweconomics.org/gen/
This is a UK initiative. It is an independent think-and-do tank that seeks to inspire and demonstrate real economic well-being. Its aim is to improve quality of life by promoting innovative solutions that challenge mainstream thinking on economic, environment and social issues. They work in partnership and hold to the belief that in economics people and the planet matter first.

WhiteBand Action
http://www.whitebandaction.org
Is a website for actions and updates from across the global movement to End Poverty and Inequality. Its content comes from over 100 national platforms forming a global alliance that demands action from the world's leaders to end global poverty.

Real World Economics Review
http://www.paecon.net/PAEReview/
This online free journal adopts a critical review of dominant neoclassical economics arguing that it only looks at certain aspects of economic reality and ignores others. Its mission is to reopen economics for free scientific inquiry and where critical thinking rules over the dominant economic ideology. It supports a reform to economics education and research by adopting the broader critical approach that includes: A broader conception of human behavior; Recognition of culture; Consideration of history; A new theory of knowledge; Empirical grounding; Expanded methods; And interdisciplinary dialogue.

Canadian Centre for Ethics and Corporate Policy
http://www.ethicscentre.ca/EN/index.cfm
Founded in 1988, it is a uniquely Canadian, independent ethics centre. The Centre is dedicated to promoting and maintaining an ethical orientation and culture in Canadian organizations. It's mission is to champion the application of ethical values in the decision-making process of business and other organizations.

Onlne Journal of Public Theology
http://www.pubtheo.com/
Religion is the source of great contention in public life today. One form of Christian faith, what is referred to as fundamentalism, evangelicalism, or the religious right, has come to dominate the public sphere. (In the US) it has aligned itself with one political party and allowed itself to be used by that party in partisan politics. This has tremendously skewed the political culture of our time and threatens the historic witness of the orthodox church. This website seeks to promote a more responsible form of public faith associated with the historic orthodox theology of the ecumenical Christian church. Fundamentalism is a modern perversion of historic Christian faith... One of the most important theological tasks of our time is to make this clear and to seek to interpret and present historic Christian faith in concepts and terms understandable to modern folks, including a proper role for faith and church in public life. This is the intent of this website.

The Centre for Corporate Citizenship
http://www.bcccc.net/
The Centre for Corporate Citizenship (Boston College) provides leadership in establishing corporate citizenship as a business essential, so all companies act as economic and social assets to the communities they impact by integrating social interests with other core business objectives. Through its research, executive education, consultation and convenings on issues of corporate citizenship, The Center is one of the leading organizations helping corporations define their role in the community.

Center for Ethical Business Cultures
http://www.cebcglobal.org/
This center based in Minnesota assists leaders in creating ethical and profitable business cultures at the enterprise, community and global levels.

Ethical Markets
http://www.ethicalmarkets.com/category/reforming-global-finance/
Ethical Markets is an independent media company covering the emergence of a sustainable, green, more ethical and just economy worldwide.

The Center for International Business Ethics (CIBE)
http://www.cibe.org.cn/CIBE/index.htm
This business ethics centre is located in Beijing and is committed to developing business ethics in China, drawing on Asian treasures of wisdom

Catholic Worker Movement
http://www.catholicworker.org/
On May 1, 1933, in the depths of the Great Depression, The Catholic Worker newspaper made its debut with a first issue of twenty-five hundred copies. Dorothy Day and a few others hawked the paper in Union Square for a penny a copy (still the price) to passersby. The Catholic Worker Movement is grounded in a firm belief in the God-given dignity of every human person. Today over 185 Catholic Worker communities remain committed to nonviolence, voluntary poverty, prayer, and hospitality for the homeless, exiled, hungry, and foresaken. Catholic Workers continue to protest injustice, war, racism, and violence of all forms. Explore on this website the life and writings of Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin as well as sample contemporary Catholic Worker thought and action.

Institute of Business Ethics
http://www.ibe.org.uk/
Based in the UK the Institute of Business Ethics was established to encourage high standards of business behaviour based on ethical values and to lead the dissemination of knowledge and good practice in business ethics.

The International Business Leaders Forum
http://www.iblf.org/
The Forum is an international educational charity set up in 1990 to promote responsible business practices internationally that benefit business and society, and which help to achieve social, economic and environmentally sustainable development, particularly in new and emerging market economies.

Intiatives of Change
http://www.iofc.org/
Initiatives of Change is a diverse network committed to building relationships of trust across the world's divides. Initiatives of Change (IofC) works on the principle that changes in people's motives, attitudes and behaviour are not only possible but are the only sure basis on which wider lasting change in society can be brought about. This is the experience of millions of people, whether involved in IofC or not, who have decided to start the 'change process' in their own lives. It often begins with a person's moral and spiritual response to the needs of the world. 'Starting with myself' may sound too simple, but there is a certain logic to it. Do I want to see peace in the world? How about starting with my own relationship with family and neighbours? Do I want to see an end to corruption and crime? Why not begin by being honest and trustworthy myself? IofC hold to the view that 'when people change, the structure of society changes; and when the structure of society changes, people change. Both go together and both are necessary

Centre for Public Justice (US)
http://www.cpjustice.org/

Christianity Today: Coverage of the US economic crisis
http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/special/economy.html

Bernard Salt
http://www.bernardsalt.com.au/index.php
Bernard Salt is a KPMG Partner based in Melbourne Australia. He is a leading commentator and advisor to corporate Australia on consumer, cultural and demographic trends. His expertise is to provide an outlook of the future social and cultural environment within which business will operate.

Slow Money: W Tasch
http://www.slowmoneyalliance.org/index.html
Slow Money formed in 2008 to catalyze the flow of investment capital to small food enterprises and to promote new principles of fiduciary responsibility to support sustainable agriculture and the emergence of restorative economy - "The promise of Slow Money gives us all hope that the post-financial-meltdown economy will be much more grounded in local, community-based, mission-positive enterprises."--Rian Fried, president, Clean Yield Asset Management

Transformative Capital Inc: Conscious capital for a sustainable world
http://www.transformativecapital.com/pages/about-greenbridge.html
Transformative's mission is to improve the quality of life and create great value, wealth and abundance for entrepreneurs, executives, investors, shareholders, employees and communities, through our active support of global sustainability.

Good Capital
www.goodcap.net
Good Capital is an investment firm that increases the flow of capital to innovative ventures creating market-based solutions to inequality and poverty. Using a high engagement model, we invest in the most promising social enterprises and give them the tools and guidance they need to succeed. In addition, Good Capital actively leads the development of the emerging social capital market. We share a deep commitment to the creation of a new, informed, and passionate world of investing that strategically moves more capital to good.

Acumen Fund
www.acumenfund.org
Acumen Fund is a non-profit global venture fund that uses entrepreneurial approaches to solve the problems of global poverty.

RSF Social Finance
http://rsfsocialfinance.org/values/mission
RSF Social Finance is a pioneering nonprofit organization dedicated to using the tools of finance to bring about positive, real-world change. Its goal is not only to make capital available to innovative projects; it’s to fundamentally transform the way the world works with money.

Tridos Bank
www.triodos.co.uk
Europe's largest ethical bank that offers savings accounts and investments and finances only projects with social and environmental benefits.

Calvert Foundation
http://www.calvertfoundation.org
For over 10 years, Calvert Foundation, a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization, has been working to make community investment a safe and logical option for all US investors seeking to make a positive social impact. They focus on using investment capital, rather than conventional philanthropy, to create a sustainable, scalable model that enables nonprofit organizations and social enterprises to address critical social problems.

Renewal Partners
www.renewalpartners.com
Renewal is a collection of organizations that over 10 years have been using the powerful tools of business and philanthropy in support of long-term societal solutions. Renewal funds change through investments, grants and collaborations.

Benetech
www.benetech.org
Non-profit social entrepreneurial venture harnessing the power of technology for social benefit and improvement. Its goal is to create new technology solutions that serve humanity and empower people to improve their lives that un turn helps build a better, safer world.

SJF Ventures
www.sjfund.com
SJF believes that exceptional returns are available to companies that positively address current energy, climate, and other global and local issues with compelling solutions and effective engagement of employees.

CleanTech Group
http://cleantech.com/about/
Stresses in the global economy are being compounded by repercussions from climate change, scarcity of food, water and other commodities, and concerns about energy independence. Cleantech invests in clean technologies that hold the greatest promise of addressing these challenges, while generating superior returns and job creation. Cleantech leader in generating cleantech markets worldwide.

Community Currency Magazine
http://ccmag.net/
A community currency is a privately issued local currency not backed by a national government and never considered legal tender. The use of a community currency is confined to a small geographic area. These currencies are also referred to as local currency, or complementary currency. They encompass a wide range of forms, both physically and financially, and often are associated with a particular economic discourse. This free online magazine is dedicated to reporting about this movement.

Value for People
http://www.valueforpeople.co.uk/
Aims to spread best practice in co-production and community currencies and help create sustainable community currency systems. It has an extensive online list of resources on community currencies: http://www.valueforpeople.co.uk/node/16

TED: Ideas Worth Spreading
http://www.ted.com/index.php/pages/view/id/5
TED believes passionately in the power of ideas to change attitudes, lives and ultimately, the world. The TED website is a clearinghouse that offers free knowledge and inspiration from some of the world's most inspired thinkers, and also a community of curious souls to engage with ideas and each other.

FORA.tv
http://fora.tv/topic/economy
FORA.tv gathers the web's largest collection of unmediated big ideas videos drawn from live events, lectures, and debates going on all the time at the world's top universities, think tanks and conferences. They present this content for anyone to watch, interact with, and share --when, where, and how they want.

Feasta
http://www.feasta.org/about.htm
Feasta is an Irish initiative. Its mission is to identify the economic characteristics that Irish society must have in order to be economically, environmentally and culturally sustainable and to share this analysis with the widest audience possible.

The Capitalism Project (early stage): Marketplace Institute, Regent College
http://capitalismproject.org/about/

Stanford Social Innovation Review
http://www.ssireview.org/
Its mission is to share substantive insights and practical experiences that will help those who do the important work of improving society do it even better. Covers best strategies for nonprofits, foundations, and socially responsible businesses.

Transforming Business
http://www.transformingbusiness.net
Transforming Business is a new research and development project in the University of Cambridge led by Peter Heslam. It analyzes and catalyzes the contribution of business to human development with a focus on enterprise solutions to poverty.

It is interested in practical solutions – "what role works for the enterprise in securing social, economic and spiritual good?" and looks to pay particular attention to the role of social capital – the institutional, relational, moral and spiritual aspects of society. The Transforming Business project has within it a growing network of business ethicists, economists, practitioners, consultants, psychologists, educators and opinion formers. Although drawn from a range of disciplines and backgrounds, they are united by a passion and commitment to use their knowledge and skills to promote enterprise-based solutions to poverty.

Despite the crisis, increasing numbers of people do seem prepared to be convinced that business can be part of the solution, rather than merely part of the problem. Key to this are resources that connect with the wholeness of human experience, including its institutional, relational, moral and spiritual dimensions. Refer http://www.transformingbusiness.net/resources.shtml

Here is one commendation of the Transforming Business project: "Promoting better understanding between spirituality and business is vitally important. Spirituality is the root of much of humanity's moral discourse and of many aspirations for the personal and common good. Business is a powerful force in our everyday lives and in wider global society. Spirituality and business are therefore major players in the maintenance and development of culture. But they need to be better integrated. This is exactly what Transforming Business seeks to do. It is long overdue!"- David Logan, CEO, Corporate Citizenship Company and Associate of the Centre for International Business and Management, Judge Business School, University of Cambridge.

Australian Catholic Social Justice Council
http://www.socialjustice.catholic.org.au/
The Australian Catholic Social Justice Council (ACSJC) was set up by the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference (ACBC) in 1987 as the national justice and peace agency of the Catholic Church in Australia. The Australian Catholic Bishops Conference mandates the ACSJC to promote research, education, advocacy and action on social justice, peace and human rights, integrating them deeply into the life of the whole Catholic community in Australia.

Ethics and Spirituality in the Workplace Program: Yale Center for Faith and Culture
http://www.yale.edu/faith/esw/esw.htm
Look around, however, and you’ll see that faith is frequently plagued by two basic malfunctions. One is that faith often doesn’t seem to have any effect upon people’s daily life. They subscribe to faith, but it remains idle, as if they were taking a placebo and not the real thing. These people pride themselves on being Christian; they teach Sunday school, they sit on the church boards or might even be its chief leaders, and yet they live a life that is completely at odds with faith’s demands. Faith serves to give them energy to keep going, to comfort them in distress, or to still consciences that are plagued by guilt. But it doesn’t significantly shape the rest of their lives.

The more serious problem is when faith’s medicine turns into a deadly poison. In this case, a person’s faith is no longer idle or lukewarm but is used for ill and leeches society. This malfunctioning of faith gives inspiration and seeming legitimacy to people’s unconscionable deeds — from acts of violence and terror to complacency and inaction before situations of abuse and injustice.

The mission at the Yale Center for Faith and Culture is to explore ways to counter these two distressingly widespread malfunctions of faith by helping people practice their faith responsibly in all spheres of life. The Center engages in that mission in two principal ways. The first is research. The Center wants to understand how faith functions in contemporary societies, and it wants to make informed decisions about how faith should be brought to bear on important issues of the day. The Center is interested in generating new ideas and helping give ideas “legs,” so as to help shape people and the institutions they work in and lead. Hence, leadership development is the second way in which the Center pursues its mission.

The Center's 'Ethics and Spirituality in the Workplace Program' takes up the economic sphere of life, often perceived as far removed from claims of faith, and explores what it means to integrate the claims of faith and the demands of workplace.

A Common Word
http://www.acommonword.com/index.php?lang=en&page=option1
This site is a reference to the interfaith dialogue based on “love thy neighbour” which is the grounding principle based on words that are common to all major faiths

Christian Leadership Alliance
http://www.christianleadershipalliance.org/
Christian Leadership Alliance (CLA) is an association that serves more than 8,000 members working in more than 4,500 organizations worldwide. The former Christian Management Association and the former Christian Stewardship Association joined together in April 2008 to create Christian Leadership Alliance—the U.S.'s leading resource for enhancing the organizational effectiveness of churches and para-church ministries.

CLA seeks to enhance the effectiveness of Christian organizations and large churches. It recognizes that organizational effectiveness begins with individuals, and that the role of the leader as a faithful steward belongs to all who are called to serve through governance, leadership, management or resource development.

Net Impact
http://www.netimpact.org/
Net Impact is an international nonprofit organization whose mission is to make a positive impact on society by growing and strengthening a community of leaders who use business to improve the world.

The Business Alliance for Local Living Economies
http://www.livingeconomies.org/
The Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE) brings together small business leaders, economic development professionals, government officials, social innovators, and community leaders to build local living economies. BALLE provide local, state, national, and international resources to this new model of economic development.

BALLE's vision lies in the power of local businesses to transform communities for the better by working cooperatively toward a shared vision. They imagine cities and towns of every size and political stripe engaged in shared learning to build community assets like sustainable agriculture, green building, renewable energy, community capital, zero-waste manufacturing and independent retail - what they call the building blocks of Living Economies. They envision a time when local economies not only generate community wealth, but also are catalysts for civic action, social diversity and ecological health -- for sustainable communities.

Social Venture Network
http://www.svn.org/
Social Venture Network inspires a community of business and social leaders to build a just economy and sustainable planet. It works to achieve this mission by: (1) Providing forums, information, and initiatives that enable leaders to work together to transform the way the world does business (2) Sharing best practices and resources that help companies generate healthy profits and serve the common good (3) Supporting a diverse community of leaders who can effect positive social change through business...

Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture
http://ethicscenter.nd.edu/resources/links.shtml
This is a web project coordinated by the Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture. The aim of this project is to provide a comprehensive and permanent resource for scholars and students wishing to have access to information about ethical theory, applied ethics, and ethics in the Catholic intellectual tradition.

Centre for Concern. Rethinking Bretton Woods Project
http://www.coc.org/rbw
The Center's Rethinking Bretton Woods Project (RBW) focusses on the power dynamics within the International Financial Institutions (IFIs), IFIs' loans and grants, and the WTO agenda. This set of power relationships has a profound impact on people in poverty in poor nations. RBW seeks ways to integrate human rights standards into trade, financial and investment policies at the IFIs and the UN. The Centre is based in Washington, U.S.

Dollars & Sense: Real World Economics
http://www.dollarsandsense.org/
Dollars & Sense publishes economic news and analysis, reports on economic justice activism, primers on economic topics, and critiques of the mainstream media's coverage of the economy.

History of Economic Thought
http://www.efm.bris.ac.uk/het/index.htm
A collection of documents on the history of economic thought created by Rod Hay at McMaster University in Canada. Centre for Popular Economics

Center for Popular Economics
http://www.populareconomics.org/About.html
Founded in 1978 the Center for Popular Economics is a non-profit collective of political economists based in Amherst, MA, USA. Its programs and publications seek to simplify the economy and put useful economic tools in the hands of people fighting for social and economic justice. It examines the root causes of economic inequality and injustice including systems of oppression based on race, class, gender, nation and ethnicity.

Field Guide to the US Economy and Econ-Atrocity Blog
http://www.fguide.org/
Everybody who is affected by the U.S. economy should learn how to argue about its goods, bads, rights and wrongs. This website, a collaborative effort of the Dancing Monkey Project and the Center for Popular Economics, and is designed to develop economic literacy and encourage economic debate. The site offers three different directions for exploration:
Econ-Atrocity Blog: to read up on current economic events. Resources: an annotated resource guide that allows access to the primary data from which the charts and figures in the book were constructed. The Book itself: 'Field Guide to the US Economy: A Compact and Irreverent Guide to Economic Life in America' (New Press; Rev Upd edition, 2006.
ISBN-10: 1595580484, ISBN-13: 978-1595580481. 240 pages.) which has been praised by Robert Heilbroner: This book belongs on the shelf of everyone who wants to be more than just a passive bystander in America's economic future. I know of no single source, at once so easy to read, so careful in its facts, so even-handed in its judgments, and so stinging in its findings. . . And John K. Galbraith: Quite possibly the best and most certainly the least solemn guide to the dismal science you are likely to encounter.

Economics Roundtable
http://www.rtable.net/index/rt/economics/recent/
Hosted by Professor William R. Parke of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Ekklesia
http://www.ekklesia.co.uk/home
Ekklesia is an independent, not-for-profit think-tank which examines the role of religion in public life and advocates transformative theological ideas and solutions.

A widely-referenced source of authoritative comment, policy ideas and news briefing in the UK on a range of contemporary issues related to religion and politics, Ekklesia has been listed among the UK's top 20 think tanks by The Independent newspaper. It has been described by The Times as 'influential'. Ekklesia now has one of the most widely read current affairs religious websites in Britain according to Alexa/Amazon rankings.

Social Science Network
http://www.ssrn.com/
Social Science Research Network (SSRN) is devoted to the rapid worldwide dissemination of social science research and is composed of a number of specialized research networks in each of the social sciences.

Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility
http://www.iccr.org/
The Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (ICCR)is a coalition of nearly 300 faith-based institutional investors, representing over US$100 billion in invested capital. For thirty-seven years the ICCR has been a leader of the corporate social responsibility movement in the U.s. Through the lens of faith, ICCR builds a more just and sustainable world by integrating social values into corporate and investor actions. ICCR raises the prophetic voice of faith to change the way companies conduct themselves as good corporate citizens and it promotes transformation in corporate policies and practices, driven by changes in how companies relate to their investors, stakeholders and the global community. Some of the strategies ICCR uses are: sponsoring shareholder resolutions; engaging in dialogue with corporate management; networking with others in civil society who share their concerns; participating in public hearings; partnering with community organizations; and organizing letter writing campaigns.

Access to Catholic Social Justice Teachings
http://www.justpeace.org/

Policy Innovations
http://www.policyinnovations.org/index.html
Seeks to highlight the best new thinking on a fairer globalization. This is the online magazine of the Carnegie Council

The Center for Budget and Policy Priorities (US)
http://www.cbpp.org/
The Center for Budget and Policy Priorities is one of the best comprehensive sites for excellent articles about poverty policy issues in the U.S. Within hours of a new bill or proposal, the Center will have an analysis up that explains in terms most of people can understand what it's all about and its socio-economic impact for low- and moderate-income families and individuals.

The Center conducts research and analysis to help shape public debates over proposed budget and tax policies and to help ensure that policymakers consider the needs of low-income families and individuals in these debates. They also develop policy options to alleviate poverty. It is known to be socially liberal, fiscally conservative, and academically rigorous. - “The invaluable Center on Budget and Policy Priorities … [has] been the go-to resource for consistently reliable analysis on matters of budgets and fiscal policy at every level of government.” - Vice President Biden

Political Economy Research Institute
http://www.peri.umass.edu/
The Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) promotes human and ecological well-being through its original research. Its approach is to translate what we learn into workable policy proposals that are capable of improving life on our planet today and in the future. In the words of the late Professor Robert Heilbroner, PERI strive to make a 'workable science out of morality.' Established in 1998, PERI is an independent unit of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, with close ties to the Department of Economics.

Bartimaeus Cooperative Ministeries
http://bcm-net.org/wordpress/sabbath-economics-covenant/
Bartimaeus Cooperative Ministeries promotes a special focus on economic discipleship, especially among its Christian supporters. Its primary vehicle for this work is a Sevenfold Covenant they have developed (below), that focuses on issues of investment, debt, giving, work and Sabbath, consumption, solidarity and the environment. The Covenant invites households who join the cooperative to assess and to examine how they can go deeper with practices of justice, sharing and sustainability.

In choosing the name of Mark’s blind man for the cooperative they are signalling that they are part of an old, wise story which, as Quakers say, “speaks to our condition.” Their cooperative members understand that their relative affluence cannot mask our spiritual poverty. They, like Bartimaeus, desire to shed their blindness and denial in order to embrace the journey of Christian discipleship.

Good Work
http://www.goodwork.org/index.php
In 1991, Good Work Inc was founded as a nonprofit corporation by three community activists in Durham, North Carolina. Realizing that entrepreneurship is a way that highly motivated individuals — regardless of economic or social background — can increase a family's economic strength and create community jobs, they built a program to support those efforts.

Good Work believes that self-employment is a viable and valuable component of the economic development system. Self-employment can help people add income and develop assets through small business ownership. People choose self-employment for the flexibility needed to balance home and work responsibilities. Many times, starting a business is preferable to minimum wage labor. Plus, for many people, self-employment offers the chance to use talents, realize suppressed dreams, and find fulfilment that is rarely possible with other employment options.

Good Work helps increase family income and assets by helping working families and community entrepreneurs develop or strengthen their small business. Since it began Good Work has trained over 3,000 people in economic literacy, entrepreneurship, and leadership skills, and has helped create or strengthen over 850 small businesses in North Carolina. Refer to the extensive links resource centre at http://www.goodwork.org/resources.php

Jubilee USA Network
http://www.jubileeusa.org/
In the Jubilee Year as quoted in Leviticus, those enslaved because of debts are freed, lands lost because of debt are returned, and community is restored. Today, international debt has become a new form of slavery. Jubilee USA Network is an alliance of 75 religious denominations and faith communities, human rights, environmental, labor, and community groups working together to break the chains of international debt that are crippling the poorest nations. Check out Jubilee USA fact sheets on the linkages between debt and other global justice issues, as well as country case studies of odious debt. Jubilee USA's in-depth reports and studies probe the issues in debt and international finance http://www.jubileeusa.org/resources

Religious Working Group on the World Bank and IMF
http://web.sndden.org/rwg/who.htm
The RWG is an adhoc group of people representing religious denominations, institutions, and organizations who meet and act to address the causes of the debt that is crushing the world's poor (unclear whether currently active). All its work is based on moral imperatives outlined on its site. Refer http://web.sndden.org/rwg/docs/imperatives.htm. Its website has a short list of US Church statements across the traditions on social and economic justice from 1963 to 1996.

Coalition on Human Needs
http://www.chn.org/
The Coalition on Human Needs is an alliance of national organizations in the U.S. working together to promote public policies that address the needs of low-income and other vulnerable people. See its extensive links on the economy at http://www.chn.org/issues/economy/index.html

Kairos
http://www.kairoscanada.org/
Kairos unites Canadian churches and religious organizations in a faithful ecumenical response to the call to “do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God” (Micah 6:8). Informed by biblical teaching, Kairos deliberates on issues of common concern, striving to be a prophetic voice in the public sphere. Inspired by a vision of God’s compassionate justice, Kairos advocates for social change, amplifying and strengthening the public witness of its members. Responding to Christ by engaging in social transformation, Kairos empowers the people of God and is empowered by them to live out their faith in action for justice and peace, joining with those of goodwill in Canada and around the world.

Ekklesia Project
http://www.ekklesiaproject.org/
The Ekklesia Project (EP) aims to put discipleship and the Church as an alternative community of practices, worship, and integration at the center of contemporary debates on Christianity and society. The project maintains a weblog on its website. It seeks to bring together relevant theological commentary from its contributing editors as it regularly reflects on the news of the day from an EP perspective, asking what the news we are offered might look like from an angle that is God-centered, church-centered, peace-centered, and political. In so doing, the hope is that the EP commentary helps members of the church to think more critically and theologically, and to see daily events and ideas in new ways.

Religion Online
http://www.religion-online.org/
Religion Online has full texts by recognized religious scholars. It is designed to assist teachers, scholars and general "seekers" who are interested in exploring religious issues. The aim is to develop an extensive library of resources, representing many different points of view, but all written from the perspective of sound scholarship.

While the initial orientation has been to seek material written primarily from a Christian perspective, the ultimate aim of the site is to broaden the scope to include material on all the world's major religions. Currently there are more than 6,000 articles and chapters. Topics include Old and New Testament, Theology, Ethics, History and Sociology of Religion, Communication and Cultural Studies, Pastoral Care, Counselling, Homiletics, Worship, Missions and Religious Education.

American Friends Service Committee
http://www.afsc.org/
The American Friends Service Committee carries out service, development, social justice, and peace programs throughout the world. Founded by Quakers in 1917 to provide conscientious objectors with an opportunity to aid civilian war victims, AFSC's work attracts the support and partnership of people of many races, religions, and cultures. AFSC's work is based on the Quaker belief in the worth of every person and faith in the power of love to overcome violence and injustice.

Levy Institute
http://www.levy.org/suswe.aspx
The Levy Economics Institute of Bard College, founded in 1986, is a nonprofit, non-partisan, public policy research organization. It is independent of any political or other affiliation, and encourages diversity of opinion in the examination of economic policy issues while striving to transform ideological arguments into informed debate.

The ultimate purpose of all of the Levy Institute's research and activities is to serve the wider policymaking community in the United States and the rest of the world by enabling scholars and leaders in business, labor, and government to work together on problems of common interest. To stimulate discussion of economic issues, the Levy Institute disseminates its findings through publications, conferences, workshops, seminars, congressional testimony, and other activities. An annual conference on the state of the U.S. and world economies is dedicated to the economic legacy of Hyman P. Minsky, the late financial economist and Levy Institute distinguished scholar.

University of Texas Inequality Project (UTIP)
http://utip.gov.utexas.edu/about.html
UTIP is a small research group led by James K. Galbraith that is concerned with measuring and explaining movements of inequality in wages and earnings and patterns of industrial change around the world. It believes it can establish reasonably reliable relationships between these measures and the broader concepts of inequality, such as income inequality.

The Economic Policy Institute
http://www.epi.org/
The Economic Policy Institute, a nonprofit Washington D.C. think tank, was created in 1986 to broaden the discussion about economic policy to include the interests of low- and middle-income workers. Today, with global competition expanding, wage inequality rising, and the methods and nature of work changing in fundamental ways, EPI provides a voice in the economic discourse for people who work for a living. Its encyclopaedic 'State of Working America,' is issued every two years. EPI researchers first brought to light the disconnect between pay and productivity that marked the U.S. economy in the 1990s and is now widely recognized as a cause of growing inequality.

Peter G. Peterson Institute
http://www.iie.com/
The Peter G. Peterson Institute for International Economics is a private, nonprofit, non-partisan research institution devoted to the study of international economic policy. Since 1981 the Institute has provided objective analysis of, and concrete solutions to, a wide range of international economic problems. It claims to be one of the very few economics think tanks that are widely regarded as "non-partisan" by the press and "neutral" by the US Congress, and it is cited by the quality media more than any other such institution.

Access Economics
http://www.accesseconomics.com.au/
Economic consultancy is Australia's leading economic consulting firms. They provide expert economic advice for business, government, industry groups and not-for-profit organisations. Their services include model-based forecasting, publications, project consulting, and investment advice. Access Economics produces five highly regarded regular publications: Business Outlook (5-10yr). Investment Monitor. Retail Forecasts. Budget Monitor. Employment Forecasts.Access Economics also produces a large volume of reports for our clients. Some of these are available to the public for download http://www.accesseconomics.com.au/publicationsreports/reports.php

Christian Peacemaker Teams. Getting in the Way
http://www.cpt.org/
Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT) arose from a call in 1984 for Christians to devote the same discipline and self-sacrifice to non-violent peacemaking that armies devote to war. Enlisting the whole church in an organized, non-violent alternative to war, today CPT places violence-reduction teams in crisis situations and militarized areas around the world at the invitation of local peace and human rights workers. CPT embraces the vision of unarmed intervention waged by committed peacemakers ready to risk injury and death in bold attempts to transform lethal conflict through the non-violent power of God’s truth and love. Their website provides an alternative news source into some of the world's troubled areas.

Character Training Institute
http://www.characterfirst.com/
The Character Training Institute is an educational organization focusing on character. The Character First! curriculum teaches 49 character qualities in a non-sectarian manner useful for secular and religious institutions. Its mission is to promote true success in businesses, schools, families, and communities by encouraging good character.

Leader to Leader Institute
http://www.leadertoleader.org/index.html
Established in 1990 as the Peter F. Drucker Foundation for Nonprofit Management, the Leader to Leader Institute furthers its mission—to strengthen the leadership of the social sector—by providing social sector leaders with essential leadership wisdom, inspiration and resources to lead for innovation and to build vibrant social sector organizations. The vision of the Leader to Leader Institute is it will chart the future path for the social sector to become the equal partner of business and government in developing responsible leaders, caring citizens, and a healthy, diverse and inclusive society.

Marshall Goldsmith
http://www.marshallgoldsmithlibrary.com/
Marshall Goldsmith is a world authority in helping successful leaders get even better – by achieving positive, lasting change in behavior: for themselves, their people and their teams. The American Management Association named Dr. Goldsmith as one of 50 great thinkers and leaders who have influenced the field of management over the past 80 years. Major business press acknowledgments include: Business Week – most influential practitioners in the history of leadership development, The Times (UK) – 50 greatest living business thinkers, Economist (UK) - most credible executive advisors in the new era of business and Fast Company - America’s pre-eminent executive coach. Many of Marshall's articles, interviews, columns and videos are available for viewing and sharing online (free of charge) at the Marshall Goldsmith Library.

Reputation Institute
http://www.reputationinstitute.com/index
Reputation Institute (RI) is the leading international organization devoted to advancing knowledge about corporate reputations and to providing professional assistance to companies interested in measuring and managing their reputations proactively. Founded in 1997, Reputation Institute has been and remains a pioneer and global leader in the development of measurement tools and in offering advice and counsel to leading companies around the world. In 2006, Reputation Institute launched the Global RepTrak™ System to identify and assess the world's most respected companies. The annual survey interviews more than 30,000 consumers in 29 countries using a standardized measurement system to rate the overall health of 600 of the world's largest companies. Refer to its Knowledge Center. http://www.reputationinstitute.com/knowledge-center/papers

McCrindle Research
http://www.mccrindle.com.au/index.htm
McCrindle is a leading research agency based in Sydney specialising in the fields of social trends, generational studies, and demographic shifts. its studies of the changing customer mind set and the demands of the ever-changing market segments are renowned across the Asia Pacific. Their focus is on understanding people. Their expertise is in observing trends and future forecasts and are known for their work in defining the changing generations, behaviours and attitudes. It analyses brands, products and ideas in the light of people, society and culture.

Geez Magazine
http://www.geezmagazine.org/
Geez is a quarterly Canadian magazine dealing with issues of spirituality, religion, and progressive politics, created by Aiden Enns (Adbusters, Buy Nothing Day) and Will Braun. Its audience is: is gruntled children of hook-line-sinker conservative Christians, spirited activists, over-churched souls (who still believe the world needs some soulful change), people who haven’t darkened a church door in years but can’t help but get drawn into the discussion of faith, and
those who feel an irresistible urge to downshift their lives.

The Other Journal
http://www.theotherjournal.com/
The Other Journal is an online quarterly publication that promotes vibrant discourse at the intersections of theology and culture. It is a publication of the Mars Hill Graduate School in Seattle, Washington.

Matter of life and debt
http://www.cofe.anglican.org/debt/
The Church of England has posted a number of resources here for helping people struggling with debt.

Independent News Sites We Watch

Independent news sites that provide more than spot news and report on voices often not reflected in mainstream news:

Project Syndicate
www.project-syndicate.org/series_categories/1
Project Syndicate deliver a diversity of high quality commentaries and analysis viewpoints to over 400 newspapers around the globe. Written by distinguished commentators across the entire democratic political spectrum and from countries around the world, Project Syndicate commentaries present to general readers some of the most influential contemporary ideas in politics, economics, science, medicine, culture, and diplomacy.

Inter-Press Service
www.ipsnews.net/index.asp
IPS is probably the largest and most credible of all ‘alternatives’ in the world of news agencies, being the first and only independent and professional news agency which provides on a daily basis information with a Third World focus and point of view. IPS has believed in the role of information as a precondition for lifting communities out of poverty and marginalization. This belief is reflected in our historic mission: giving a voice to the voiceless” - acting as a communication channel that privileges the voices and the concerns of the poorest and creates a climate of understanding, accountability and participation around development, promoting a new international information order between the South and the North.

Christian Science Monitor
www.csmonitor.com
Despite its name, the Monitor was not established to be a religious-themed paper, nor does it promote the doctrine of its patron church. Monitor's mission is to "to injure no man, but to bless all mankind." Its website is one of the most respected news sources on the internet. It is particularly well known for its in-depth coverage of the Middle East.

RGE Monitor
http://www.rgemonitor.com/index.php
RGE Monitor has been named one of the world's best (macro) economics websites by BusinessWeek, The Economist, Forbes and the Wall Street Journal. Their analysts define the key global economic and geostrategic debates and are knwon to distill the best thinking on all sides. For its coverage of the global financial crisis refer http://www.rgemonitor.com/707

The Business Insider
http://www.businessinsider.com
A leading online US based business news site dedicated to aggregating, reporting and analyzing the top news stories across the web.

Third World Network
http://www.twnside.org.sg
Third World Network (TWN) is an independent non-profit international network of organisations and individuals involved in issues relating to development, Third World and North-South affairs. TWN was formed to coordinate and consolidate cooperation among development groups in the South. Its mission is to bring about a greater articulation of the needs and rights of peoples in the Third World, a fair distribution of world resources, and forms of development which are ecologically sustainable and fulfill human needs. For its coverage of the global financial crisis refer http://www.twnside.org.sg/crisis.htm

FN Arena: Financial News Data and Analysis (Aus)
http://www.fnarena.com/index2.cfm?type=dsp_newscat&c=8
An independent Australian supplier of financial, business and economic news supported by an experienced team of financial and business journalists.

Scoop
www.scoop.co.nz/news/business
Scoop is New Zealand's leading independent news resource for news-makers and the people that influence the news (as opposed to a news site for "news consumers"). It brings together the information that is creating the news as it is released to the media.

NewMatilda
http://newmatilda.com
NewMatilda is an independent Australian website of news, analysis and satire. Believing that robust media is fundamental to a healthy democracy, NewMatilda aims to provide non-partisan information. It has no association with any political party or media organisation. It seeks to provide intelligent coverage of Australian politics, business, consumerism, civil society, international affairs, media and culture for a global audience. As well as offering an understanding of current events against a broad historical and political backdrop, it features issues and ideas often left untouched by the mainstream media.

Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/
An independent newspaper and website based in London that is a leading liberal voice.

Stratfor
www.stratfor.com
Stratfor is a US private intelligence agency. It claims to be one of the top providers of open source intelligence in the West. For an independent perspective on the geopolitical international situation refer to Stratfor - they provide a free 14 day trial that converts to a one email a week free subscription package.

Lowy Institute
http://www.lowyinstitute.org/
The Lowy Institute is an independent international policy think tank based in Sydney. Its objective is to generate new ideas and dialogue on international developments and Australia’s role in the world. Its mandate is broad. It ranges across all the dimensions of international policy debate in Australia - economic, political and strategic – and it is not limited to a particular geographic region. The Institute has two core tasks: (1) To produce distinctive research and fresh policy options for Australia’s international policy. (2) To promote wide discussion of Australia’s role in the world.

Access Economics
http://www.accesseconomics.com.au/index.php
Access Economics is Australia’s premier economic consulting firm. It provides expert independent economic advice for business, government, industry groups and not-for-profit organisations.

ODE
www.odemagazine.com
Ode is a print and online publication about positive news, about the people and ideas that are changing our world for the better. It is passionate about the issues for which it stands: positive social, environmental and economic change.

WhiteBand Action
http://www.whitebandaction.org/g20voice
Is a website for actions and updates from across the global movement to End Poverty and Inequality. Its content comes from over 100 national platforms forming a global alliance that demands action from the world's leaders to end global poverty. Link reference here is to the G20 Voice initiative.

London Institute of Contempoary Christian Studies
http://www.licc.org.uk/engaging-with-work/overview/
For over twenty years LICC people have been pioneers in workplace ministry in the UK and have produced a series of resources for individuals from a Christian worldview to improve the quality of their work, the quality of their work relationships, and the quality of their contribution to the culture of workplace organisations.

America, The National Catholic Weekly
http://americamagazine.org/content/current-issue.cfm

America, a Jesuit magazine, is the only national Catholic weekly magazine in the United States. Its voice is a distinctive one. It is neither an official nor a semi-official review; neither a scholarly periodical nor a catechetical one. Rather it is a journal of Catholic opinion. It serves educated Catholics and other readers interested in intelligent examination of church and world affairs, seen through the lens of the Catholic faith and with the eyes of catholic reason.

National Catholic Reporter (US)
http://ncronline.org/
Established in 1964, National Catholic Reporter (NCR) began as a newspaper and is now a print and web news source that stands as one of the few independent journalistic outlet for Catholics and others in the United States who struggle with the complex moral and societal issues of the day. Approximately 23% of the U.S. population identifies itself as Catholic, the largest religious body in this country, and NCR is the only significant alternative Catholic voice that provides avenues for expression of diverse perspectives, promoting tolerance and respect for differing ideas. It is concerned for all people and we are committed to shaping a world that recognizes the dignity of every human being, regardless of religious belief, gender, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation or other characteristic. Throughout its history, it has been a voice for the disadvantaged and the marginalized, and it has often told the stories of injustice that others simply will not print.

Watching America
http://watchingamerica.com/News/
WatchingAmerica (WA) reflects global opinion about the United States, helping Americans and non-Americans alike understand what the world thinks of current issues that involve the U.S. This is done by providing news and views about the United States published in other countries. WA has no political agenda. It is not WA's purpose to find favorable or unfavorable content, but to reflect as accurately as possible how others perceive about the United States. WA makes available in English articles written about the U.S. by foreigners, often for foreign audiences, and often in other languages. By integrating the latest translation technology into the site, visitors are able to surf all of the content of foreign-language news outlets at the push of a button - in English.

OneWorld (UK)
http://uk.oneworld.net/
OneWorld UK aims to provide the UK's best online coverage of human rights and sustainable development around the world. OneWorld UK is part of a global network of 11 regional centres and 1,600 partners striving to bring about a fairer and more sustainable world. Its mission in the UK is to help people in the UK make a difference by providing the tools and content they need to speak, connect and take action as true global citizens.

North American Congress on Latin America
https://nacla.org/news
The North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA) Report is the oldest and most widely read progressive magazine covering Latin America and its relationship with the United States. The NACLA is an independent, nonprofit organization founded in 1966 that works toward a world in which the nations and peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean enjoy a relationship with the United States based on mutual respect, and free from injustice, economic and political subordination. To that end, its mission is to provide information and analysis on the region, and on its complex and changing relationship with the United States, as tools for education and advocacy - to foster knowledge beyond borders.

NACLA believe that knowledge is essential for change, so they use a combination of information/media activism and popular education to provide people the tools they need to understand the world in order to change it.

New Internationalist: Clean Start Building a Fairer Global Economy
http://www.newint.org/sites/cleanstart/
This is New Internationalist's (NI) guide to the financial crisis. NI is an communications cooperative that joins people ideas and action in the fight for global justice. With over 30 years of publishing under its belt, NI is renowned for its radical, campaigning stance on a range of world issues, from the cynical marketing of babymilk in the developing world to human rights in Burma. It’s contributors are from around the world and it claims tbe independent and free from corporate advertisers’ influence.

The Nation
http://www.thenation.com/
A weekly United States periodical devoted to politics and culture, and "the flagship of the left" without formal political affiliations. Its founding prospectus of 1865 states that: "The Nation will not be the organ of any party, sect, or body. It will, on the contrary, make an earnest effort to bring to the discussion of political and social questions a really critical spirit, and to wage war upon the vices of violence, exaggeration, and misrepresentation by which so much of the political writing of the day is marred."

Alternet - Corporate Accountability and the Workplace
http://www.alternet.org/workplace/
AlterNet is an award-winning news magazine and online community that creates original journalism and amplifies the best of hundreds of other independent media sources (echo chamber). AlterNet's aim is to inspire action and advocacy on the environment, human rights and civil liberties, social justice, media, health care issues, and more. Since its inception in 1998, AlterNet.org has grown dramatically to keep pace with the public demand for independent news and now receives more than 3 million monthly visitors to its site.

Other News Sites We Watch

Economist
http://www.economist.com/
An English-language weekly news and international affairs publication The Economist claims it "is not a chronicle of economics." (How our readers view The Economist". economist.com. http://www.thefreelibrary.com/The+economist.-a0100959859). Rather, it aims "to take part in a severe contest between intelligence, which presses forward, and an unworthy, timid ignorance obstructing our progress." It practices advocacy journalism in taking an editorial stance based on free trade and globalisation but from a centrist position where it considers itself the enemy of privilege, pomposity and predictability. It targets educated readers and its audience is many influential executives and policy-makers (http://www.economist.com/help/DisplayHelp.cfm?folder=663377)

International Herald Tribune
http://www.iht.com/
A widely read English international news website. Based in Paris it combines the resources of its own correspondents with those of The New York Times

Financial Times
http://www.ft.com/home/asia
An international business newspaper and website based in London. The Financial Times is politically centrist, in contrast to its right-leaning competitor, The Wall Street Journal. It advocates free markets and is in favour of globalisation but is recognising the economic paradigm has changed and is supporting conversations on the future of capitalism. Noam Chomsky has in the past said it is "the only paper that tells the truth". (Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media, Part II, 1992)

Reuters
http://www.reuters.com/finance/economy
Thomson Reuters, a Canadian company that is the world's largest international multimedia news agency.

China View
http://www.chinaview.cn/
Xinhuanet was launched in 1997 as the online news service of Xinhua News Agency. It releases important news about China and the world around the clock without stop by relying on the agency's worldwide information-gathering network. Xinhuanet has three domain names: xinhuanet.com, xinhua.org and news.cn. Its English version is chinaview.cn.

The Economic Times (India)
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/
The online version of India's largest financial daily

All Africa
http://allafrica.com/
All Africa is one of a family of companies within Africa Global Media that aggregate, produce and distribute news from across Africa. Africa Global Media is a multi-media content service provider and the largest electronic distributor of African news and information worldwide. Registered in Mauritius, with offices in Johannesburg, Dakar, Lagos and Washington, D.C.

World Newspapers
http://www.world-newspapers.com/
A portal of world newspapers, magazines, and news sites in English, sorted by country and region.

Global Systemic Crisis - A weekly press review
http://www.leap2020.eu/Global-Systemic-Crisis-A-weekly-press-review_a171.html
A weekly selection of articles published in the international online media on the subject of the unfolding global crisis in fields such as: finance & economy, strategic issues, and energy.