Markets for social goods
New markets for social goods (or ‘bads’) can also play a role in accelerating social innovation.
Social markets
Social markets such as Slivers of Time which links people’s spare hours to employer needs. This was originally proposed in the mid-1990s as a Guaranteed Electronic...
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Markets for ‘bads’, such as emissions or waste disposal trading schemes, and emerging thinking on creating markets for other social ‘bads’ (such as criminality or unemployment)...
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Carbon markets are a means of rewarding carbon reduction, for example the certificates issued for carbon sequestration in soils by the application of compost in Australia....
Read moreSocial stock exchanges
Social stock exchanges to measure the performance of social businesses. This would enable investors to trade shares and invest in social purpose companies and enable those...
Read moreSocial Indices
Social Indices such as the FTSE4Good Index Series which measures the performance of companies that meet globally recognised corporate responsibility standards. This index can be used...
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