Part II extends the pro-market argument, examining governance safeguards and institutional design to prevent rent-seeking in climate policy. It stresses regulatory clarity, competition policy alignment, and safeguards against policy capture to ensure emissions-reduction efforts remain innovation-driven and economically efficient. 

This analysis reports how climate change acts as a macroeconomic risk multiplier—exacerbating inflation, supply-chain stress, asset re-pricing, sovereign risk, and financial fragility. It argues that businesses and regulators must treat climate as a cross-cutting systemic issue, not simply an environmental add-on, because the economic implications span sectors, geographies and time horizons.

Anthropic announces a National Security and Public Sector Advisory Council composed of experts in defense, intelligence, government administration, and technology ethics. The council will advise on responsible AI deployment, risk mitigation, interagency coordination, and safeguarding democratic and security institutions amid rapid AI advancement. It reflects rising expectations for accountable AI governance in public-impact domains. 

This report analyzes how political risk—ranging from regulatory shifts and policy unpredictability to geopolitical tensions—affects corporate valuations, operating costs, supply chains, and long-term investment. It introduces a framework connecting political events to financial consequences, urging companies to integrate political-risk analytics into strategic planning, governance, and ESG-related disclosures to strengthen resilience. 

This report analyzes how political risk—ranging from regulatory shifts and policy unpredictability to geopolitical tensions—affects corporate valuations, operating costs, supply chains, and long-term investment. It introduces a framework connecting political events to financial consequences, urging companies to integrate political-risk analytics into strategic planning, governance, and ESG-related disclosures to strengthen resilience. 

This work examines how global capitalism’s democratic foundations are eroding, as inequality, institutional decay, policy capture and corporate dominance erode democratic legitimacy. It argues that corporate-state relations and market structures shape democratic outcomes and that without attention to power, voice and influence, business risks operating in unstable systems of diminishing legitimacy. 

The Total Value Framework proposes measuring corporate performance across financial, human, social, and environmental dimensions. It aims to align capital allocation with long-term value creation by integrating stakeholder impacts into investment analysis and corporate governance decisions.