I’ve become increasingly fascinated with social media to improve on traditional ways of preparing for and predicting the future. Noreena Hertz Read Quote
Consumers, unlike voters, expect an immediate response to their concerns; and companies, unlike governments, do not have the luxury of a mid-term lull. Noreena Hertz Read Quote
The World Trade Organization is an organization that defends trade interests. I think the problem is less that they exist. The problem is that internationally we’ve only got an organization that protects trade interests. Surely we need some kind of counterweight to protect human rights and the environment, too. Noreena Hertz Read Quote
We need to have much clearer regulations on things like corporate funding of scientific research. Things need to be made explicit which are implicit. Noreena Hertz Read Quote
I was – the last protest I was at was in Genoa, where I got tear gassed, and I hate tear gas, and I hate being in crowds. Noreena Hertz Read Quote
Debt vultures are really the scum at the bottom of the pond. These are guys who buy up the debts of the world’s poorest countries on the secondary market. You can go buy debts of a country like Peru, for example, at a real discount. Why? Because people think that the debts won’t be repaid. Noreena Hertz Read Quote
Countries that need monies so that they can provide health care and education and shelter to their people shouldn’t have to repay debts that we knowingly lent to bad regimes long since gone; and all illegitimate debts – debts lent to these terrible dictators like Saddam Hussein, like Suharto, like Marcos – must also be canceled. Noreena Hertz Read Quote
Most of us are going through life without interrogating whether our decision-making processes are fit for purpose. And that’s something we need to change – especially when the stakes are high and the decisions are of real import. Noreena Hertz Read Quote
Errors in decision-making lead young people to under-save for retirement, doctors to miss tumours, CEOs to make catastrophic investments, governments to engage in needless wars, and parents to irreversibly traumatize their children. Noreena Hertz Read Quote
It’s actually very surprising how little we think about the quality of our decision-making and how we could improve it. How absent decision-making classes are from educational curricula. How little we think about how it is we think. Noreena Hertz Read Quote
