Writer. Advisor. Catalyzer.

Denise explains how economic power and paradigms shape our world.

Featured In

The Big Fix

Available everywhere October 15, 2024.

The Big Fix: How Companies Capture Markets and Harm Canadians 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

  • Anti-Trust from a Multilevel Evolutionary Perspective with David Sloan Wilson

    Which is more effective for sustainability, competition or collaboration? And what can antitrust regulators learn from evolutionary biology – and vice versa?

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  • ESG's Many Sharpshooters

    Today’s proxy ESG (environmental, social, governance) wars choose narrative over reality, on both the left and the right. Therefore, the best metaphor I can find for ESG is the Texas sharpshooter.

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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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  • The Wizard of Oz Money Monopoly

    The Federal Reserve. Many Americans don't know much about our central bank, its function, and its founding; and yet it looms large as perhaps the most influential actor in how our economy – and financial markets – function.

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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

Trying to define economic "value" is similar to the challenge that scientists have in defining what it means to be alive – there is no universal definition.

What is Life? What is Economic Value?

Embodied Economics

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