Enterprise expert issues social market manifesto

By Helen Warrell, Third Sector, 5 September 2007

Social enterprises should work together to create a transparent ethical stock exchange that could create liquidity for the sector and discourage damaging speculation, according to a new report from Oxford's Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship.

The proposal comes from Jamie Hartzell, whose own social enterprise, the Ethical Property Company, has so far launched two share issues raising more than £5.5m. Hartzell identified the need for a "positive alternative" to the mainstream markets, but stressed that such an alternative would have to be "carefully crafted" to...

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