Doing Good Better
Choices and Paradigms in the Social Ecosystem

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Foreword

By Professor Tommy Koh

The Social Ecosystem

1

Mapping the social landscape

  • Understanding the ecosystem of change
  • Transitions in the Singapore social ecosystem
  • Social change in the new normal

Dilemmas

2

To do or not to do?

  • The colour of money
  • The rights and wrongs of naming institutions
  • The power of disclosure
  • Dissecting medical dilemmas
  • Scaling up for extinction
  • Ownself check ownself
  • How relevant are term limits?
  • Guarding the changing of the guard
  • Pay “market” salaries
  • Responding to anonymous whistleblowers

Values

3

To be or not to be?

  • When market values rule society
  • Where markets don’t work
  • Pushing back on privilege
  • Shaping national values
  • Embracing the dignity of work and workers
  • Can gambling be responsible?
  • Volunteering matters
  • When churches are charities
  • Please be fair, raise our taxes
  • Towards a new tax morality
  • The unfairness of fairness

Capitalism

4

Capitalism is dead, long live capitalism!

  • Taming the corporate beast
  • The resurgence of ethics in corporations
  • Corporate Social Responsibility 2.0
  • Towards a new capitalism
  • Reconstructing company law

Business Hybrids

5

The fusion of the market and social economies

  • What makes a social enterprise?
  • Mixing business and charity
  • The hype and hope of impact investing
  • Whither the social stock exchange?

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