By Saurabh Tripathi
It was the summer of ‘77. Scientist James Black had the unenviable task of informing some powerful oilmen (Exxon’s Management Committee), that the pursuance of fossil fuel-based energy was only going to end one way. His message was clear: “There is general scientific agreement t…
By Pavan Sukhdev
A few days into the JWT/Ford 'ScamAd' scandal (an offensive mock advertisement for the Ford 'Figo' submitted for a prestigious local industry award, showing a Silvio Berlusconi look-alike leering at three scantily clad women bound and gagged in his 'Figo' car boot) the damage co…
By Pavan Sukhdev
If corporate profits and growth in GDP were adequate indicators of human progress, the planet and society would be doing just fine. In the US, corporate profits soared from 3% of GDP to 15% of GDP from 1980 to 2010, but meanwhile, household real incomes and employment fell repeated…
By Pavan Sukhdev
Based on a the available literature, biographical works, and scholarly articles accessible through the Yale library database, there is no verifiable evidence that J.D. Rockefeller dissuaded, coerced, or successfully influenced either Henry Ford of the Federal Government to abando…
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