#41: ESG Process -- Profit and Purpose with Omar Shaikh of the Global Ethical Finance Initiative and David Kim

Today we are discussing Profit and Purpose with Omar Shaikh, co-founder of the Global Ethical Finance Initiative. We asked David Kim, who many of you know, to join as well, because this topic can’t be torn apart from philosophical underpinnings of commerce, business, history, and law, and David has such a strong ability to put big concepts into context. This is such an interesting discussion that I hope will be absorbed into how you are currently crafting your ESG process, or even more clearly defining a few things that you learned in business school that are "just not so". I think this episode has the highest frequency of citing or referring to major philosophical theories or thinkers, from Adam Smith, Hume and  Hutchinson, to Narrow banking to the up-to-date work the Global Ethical Finance Roundtables are doing. I’ve included links to Omar’s Global Ethical Finance Initiative, as well as the Economics of Biodiversity paper David mentioned. That link will take you to a highlight report, but there is a 610-page version as well for reference. Thanks for listening.