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Ethical Consumerism Isn’t Dead, It Just Needs Better Marketing

Harvard Business Review

. “If consumers cared about moral issues,” the argument goes, “then companies and brands that did the right thing would have a larger market share. ” I understand the attraction to markets and their efficiency; I am a marketing professor. billion in the US alone in 2013 according to Charity Navigator).

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Why Those Guys Won the Economics Nobels

Harvard Business Review

You’d have this beta with the market, so you have the riskless rate plus beta times the equity premium. A mini-glossary: beta is the amount that an individual stock fluctuates relative to the overall stock market, and the equity premium is the difference in expected return between stocks and a “riskless” asset such as Treasury bonds.].

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