Author. Advisor. Catalyzer.

Denise explains how economic power and paradigms shape our world.

Featured In

The Big Fix

The Big Fix: How Companies Capture Markets and Harm Canadians (October 2024) shows how monopolies drive down innovation, wages, and raise prices on consumers.

It details through storytelling and deep research, how the country can achieve a more innovative, productive, and livable economy for everyone. Endorsed by a former central bank governor of Canada, former CEOs, and political leaders across parties.

Selected Work

  • Living Inside Long Time in the Age of Rapid-Fire Chaos

    I’ve always had a sense of long time. From a young age, I acutely felt my smallness in a giant universe. It was scary, disorienting, and sad. But also rich with possibility. A good kind of humbling, even if I didn't know it at the time.

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  • Distinguishing Among Climate Change-Related Risks

    This document outlines three main categories of climate-related risks: planetary, economic, and financial, detailing their relevance to various stakeholders, timeframes, and potential response strategies.

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  • The Antitrust Theories Are Weak, but the Effects Can Be Chilling on Corporate Collaboration for Climate Action

    As the private sector has become increasingly engaged in the effort to combat climate change, debates have emerged about the impact and legality of collaboration among firms – particularly those in the same industry. 

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  • The Roll-up Economy: The Business of Consolidating Industries with Serial Acquisitions

    There is a massive, hidden force shaping the economy in the shadows. Learn how serial acquisitions affect everything from sunglasses to your local dentist.

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Long Now Talk:
How our Economic Stories Shape the World

Featured Writing

ANTITRUST, ENVIRONMENT, COLLABORATION

This report – a joint publication of the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law – gives an overview of the broad purview of antitrust law, and the myriad and complex ways in which it intersects with and affects sustainability goals. 

Antitrust and Sustainability: 
A Landscape Analysis

NATURE, ECONOMICS, VALUES, FINANCE

Similar to how scientists have no unified definition of life, economists (and policymakers and the rest of us) have no universal definition of economic value, but what we do and do not ascribe value to in the economy shapes everything about our existence.

What is life? What is economic value?

Embodied Economics

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