Guide – blogposts organised by theme

Below are links to blogposts roughly gathered under the following headline themes:

• Foundations of fairness
• Rebuilding our economy and society
• Fairness in business
• Community and society
• Fairness and tax
• Business and its stakeholders
• Fair executive pay
• Health and fairness
• Numbers are not everything
• Algorithms and fairness in AI
• Fairness and the law
• Sport and fairness

Foundations of fairness

• Fairness – the human lens for addressing our current challenges
• Ultimatums and dictatorship: fairness shines through
• An unfairness of chimpanzees
• Dirty alleyways and social norms
• Meritocracy’s unfair
• Never let winners write the rules
• Fairness is a choice
• Fairness is a choice II
• Mother Nature’s recipes
• The meaning of fairness
• Why fairness matters
• Is fairness an art?

Rebuilding our economy and society

• Not all in this together
• The pursuit of happiness
• Fair growth
• Unfairness fosters conspiracy thinking
• Optimum inequality?
• Some thoughts on Rethink: build back fairer
• Poverty isn’t bashful
• Unfair food: the hunger trap
• The pursuit of happiness II
• Fairness is a choice II
• We will be judged: the knell of intergenerational fairness
• Trapped by expectations; the poverty of ambition
• Fairness – the human lens for addressing our current challenges
• Taxing gains, closing loopholes
• Bowling together
• Just transitions and gilets jaunes
• Sea level rise: the most unjust transition
• Tales of local heroes

Fairness in business

• What’s the purpose of purpose?
• The living dead: rise of the zombie company?
• What’s the purpose of purpose? (III)
• What’s the purpose of purpose? (II)
• Fairness for customers
• Not being unfair in business
• Gaping holes in fairness
• Diversity and fairness
• Unfairness overwhelms bankruptcy
• The failures of algorithmic fairness
• The unfairness of dual class shares
• Fairer futures
• Women in leadership boost performance
• Accountable capitalism
• FCA unpacks fairness: the Consumer Duty
• Credos and a fair return
• Funds industry must aim for fairness
• Fairness on the airwaves
• Constrained resources
• PRI on income inequality

Community and society

• Bowling together
• Opportunity knocked
• The centre cannot hold
• Unfairness fosters conspiracy thinking
• Lessons from Argentina, and Copperfield
• Playing fair: the oddly inequitable world of sport
• We will be judged: the knell of intergenerational fairness
• The failures of algorithmic fairness
• Gaping holes in fairness
• Gaping chasms
• Tales of local heroes
• Sea level rise: the most unjust transition

Fairness and tax

• Talking with the taxman about fairness
• The maybe fair tax deal
• The growth myth
• Simplifying tax is fairness
• Governing through the lens of fairness
• Taxing gains, closing loopholes
• Taxes to drive fair growth
• Fair tax week
• Merlin poised to fall under the spell of private equity
• Fair tax reflections from investors II
• Fair tax reflections from investors

Business and its stakeholders

• Stakeholders generally – What’s the purpose of purpose?; Governing through the lens of Fairness; Accountable Capitalism; Fairness – the human lens for addressing our current challenges; Fairer futures; What’s the purpose of purpose? (III)
• Environment – Just transitions and gilets jaunes; We will be judged: the knell of intergenerational fairness; Unfairness in carbon emissions; Sea level rise: the most unjust transition
• Customers – Fairness for customers; FCA unpacks fairness: the Consumer Duty; Credos and a fair return; The Consumer Duty II – the FCA further unpacks fairness
• Workforce – The social footprint, and Maundy Thursday’s gifts; The limited responsibility company, or the tale of the unnatural revolutionary; Poverty isn’t bashful; People matter, but not like that; Better ways of showing how people matter; Solidarity: fairness and the workforce; Fairness in the pay ratio; Diversity and fairness; The unfairness of dual class shares
• Suppliers – Demanding supply
• Creditors – Unfairness overwhelms bankruptcy
• Regulators – Never let winners write the rules

Fair executive pay

• Resentment and rents: fairness in executive pay
• Twelfth night, or whatever you want, CEO
• The madness, let alone unfairness, of US executive pay
• The Gini in the executive pay bottle
• Funds facilitate unfair pay
• What gets measured gets managed — unfortunately
• Fairness in the pay ratio
• Diversity and fairness

Health and fairness

• The missing actions on vaccine fairness
• Some thoughts on Rethink: build back fairer
• Credos and a fair return
• The missing actions on vaccine fairness (II)
• Unfairness fosters conspiracy thinking
• Money is not the answer

Numbers are not everything

• Money is not the answer
• Inflation’s two separate worlds (at least)
• What gets measured gets managed — unfortunately
• The growth myth
• The meaning of fairness

Algorithms and fairness in AI

• Learning from the stochastic parrots: finding fairness in AI
• The failures of algorithmic fairness
• But is it FAIR?

Fairness and the law

• The Rule of Law is fairness; Dobbs isn’t
• Unfair trials: justice in the dock
• Investor actions to drive value and fairness through the Rule of Law
• Board actions to protect value and boost fairness through Rule of Law

Sport and fairness

• Playing fair: the oddly inequitable world of team sport
• Fair Play, the play – and the mistreatment of Caster Semenya