Climate “Reparations” Numbers Are Rigged
By Paul Mueller Nobel Prize–winning economist Esther Duflo thinks rich countries should pay poor countries $500 billion in compensation each year for climate-change damages. It…
Paul Mueller
ESG Puppeteers
By Paul Mueller The Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) framework allows a small group of corporate executives, financiers, government officials, and other elites, the ESG…
A Short Guide to ESG: Conclusions
By Paul Mueller As I conclude this series depicting the ESG landscape, let me clarify a few of my conclusions. I’ve tried to keep my…
A Short Guide to ESG: Philosophical Problems
By Paul Mueller In addition to Economic Problems and Political Problems, philosophical objections to ESG abound but are rarely addressed by its advocates. Besides largely…
A Short Guide to ESG: Political Problems
By Paul Mueller Whether the political dimensions of ESG are features or bugs depends on your perspective. From the perspective of ordinary citizens, though, ESG…
A Short ESG Guide: Economic Problems
By Paul Mueller The Environmental, Social, and Governance movement has wrapped itself in the garb of justice. It is just as much a moral crusade…
A Short Guide to ESG: Legislation
By Paul Mueller Tracking and describing all ESG-related legislation falls well beyond the scope of this column (and this series) but surveying the legislative landscape…
A Short Guide to ESG: Finance
By Paul Mueller ESG has made significant inroads in the finance and investing community. Environmentalists have long used divestiture campaigns and impact investing to influence…
A Short Guide to ESG: Goals
By Paul Mueller At this point, we should try to get a clear picture of what ESG advocates hope to achieve. But because there are…
A Short Guide to ESG: Advocates
By Paul Mueller A truly dizzying alphabet soup of organizations advocates the use of Environmental, Social, and Governance criteria — CFI, GRI, MSCI, FSB, SASB,…
A Short Guide to ESG: History
This piece is the third in a series by Paul Mueller. Part I Part II The intellectual lineage of the ESG movement is fundamentally globalist…
A Short ESG Guide: Terms
By Paul Mueller ESG advocates use a variety of jargon to describe their activities and goals. Some are pretty straightforward to define, others are rather…
A Short ESG Guide: Introduction
By Paul Mueller The murky precepts of Environmental, Social, Governance (ESG) criteria wield growing influence in investing and in regulation. Those who want to understand…