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Call me an old, unreconstructed gammon but — seriously, financial services multinationals? — If you care about environment, society and governance, put a sock in your [[virtue signalling]] and pay your sodding [[taxes]].
Call me an old, unreconstructed gammon but — seriously, financial services multinationals? — If you care about environment, society and governance, put a sock in your [[virtue signalling]] and pay your sodding [[taxes]].
Of course, ESG is becoming more of a thing, more investment managers have it in their mandates, as a marketing device, or they are obliged to meet sustainability targets, by regulation, then the basic wrongheadedness of stakeholder capitalism rears its head. We see we are creating a monster that will not vouchsafe ''any'' improvement in the environment, but will open yet another front for the [[regulatory-industrial complex]] to occupy, and [[Rent-extraction|extract rent]] from.
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*[[Stakeholder capitalism]]
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*[[Agency problem]]

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Call me an old, unreconstructed gammon but — seriously, financial services multinationals? — If you care about environment, society and governance, put a sock in your virtue signalling and pay your sodding taxes.

Of course, ESG is becoming more of a thing, more investment managers have it in their mandates, as a marketing device, or they are obliged to meet sustainability targets, by regulation, then the basic wrongheadedness of stakeholder capitalism rears its head. We see we are creating a monster that will not vouchsafe any improvement in the environment, but will open yet another front for the regulatory-industrial complex to occupy, and extract rent from.

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