A statement of Reformation Principles applicable to the 21st Century
Background
The governments of the world have adopted 17 sustainable development goals and targets for the reduction of greenhouse gases creating a new economic growth model for the 21st century.
The Catholic Church has evolved articulate social teachings which provide guidance for ethical decision-making under this new approach to human…
Arguably, capitalism is in crisis. Part of its failings can be traced to the inadequacy of financial valuation as a measure of the true value or net worth of a company.
The prevailing capitalist model today is to maximize short term earnings, often through cost cutting, to enhance near-term financial…
The things wrong with America can be traced to that roiling year of reinvention half a century ago.
When the complete history of the decline and fall of the American nation comes to be written, the turning point toward failure will not be recorded as the election of Donald Trump in 2016. It will be found among the events of 1968.
The young new year is a suitable…
The Winter Solstice in our Northern Hemisphere has passed. The days are now getting longer here and shorter in the Southern Hemisphere. The sun has its place and our earth circles around it and time moves on — as always.
There are constants in the cosmos.
A new Star Wars…
We are approaching the 10th anniversary of the start of the collapse of credit markets in 2008. Housing prices started to fall in 2007 and defaults on sub-prime mortgages started to rise at this time 10 years ago.
But Wall Street sellers and buyers of investment contracts tied to sub-prime…
The Caux Round Table is pleased to announce a reinvigoration of our brand and efforts. Our most obvious change is our organization’s name. The Caux Round Table will now be known as the “Caux Round Table For Moral Capitalism” (CRT). …
On Monday, June 5th, the Caux Round Table (CRT) joined with the Citizens League, Center of the American Experiment, Growth & Justice and the Humphrey School of Public Affairs to host a public forum with Ron Haskins of the Brookings Institution and Robert Doar of the American Enterprise Institute (AEI).
The succession of unfair and manipulative extractions and one-sided advantages undertaken by large corporations — which torment proponents of global capitalism — continues unabated like the drops used in Chinese Water Torture.
Humanity, it seems, is not fully capable of being virtuous.
A former employee of UnitedHealth Group, a major…
Last week, I was again at the Vatican for the annual meeting of the Fondazione Centesimus Annus Pro Pontifice, the lay foundation created by Pope John Paul II to advocate Catholic Social Teachings in the world.
Through the mediation of the late Jean-Loup Dherse of France, Catholic Social Teachings shaped…
The Caux Round Table is an organization that strives to promote ethics in business and government. On a micro level, we view these endeavors as very specific actions that we can all take daily to act more ethically leading to enhanced success, whether in the business or civic world. …
