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Invest With Social Responsibility, It Can Be A Tool For Good In 1977, two years after I graduated from Brown University, college students around the country launched a movement against Apartheid. Their campaign focused on divestment: convincingAmerican corporations to sell shares of companies doing business with South Africa's Apartheid government. The foundation of their argument was moral and straightforward, that no one should profit from a system that brutally oppresses people. By the mid-1980s, the divestment campaign became made pariahs of the companies still willing to transact with the Apartheid regime. Reflecting on the movement, in 2010 Archbishop Desmond Tutu wrote, "We could not have achieved our freedom and just peace without the help of people around the world, who through the use of non-violent means, such as boycotts and divestment, encouraged their governments and other corporate actors to reverse decades-long support for the Apartheid regime." Socially responsible investing is rooted in the recognition that money, because it holds power in people's imaginations, can be a tool for accomplishing good.

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"American democratic capitalism is in danger. How can we save it? For its first 200 years, the American economy exhibited truly impressive performance. The combination of democratically elected governments and a capitalist system worked, with ever-increasing levels of efficiency, spurred by division of labor, international trade, and scientific management of companies. By the nation's bicentenary in 1976, the American economy was the envy of the world. But since then, outcomes have changed dramatically. Growth in the economic prosperity of the average American family has slowed to a crawl, while the wealth of the richest Americans has grown to a level never seen before. This imbalance threatens the American democratic capitalist system, which only works when the average family benefits enough to keep voting for it. In this bracing yet constructive book, world-renowned business thinker Roger Martin starkly outlines the fundamental problem: we have treated the economy as a machine for which the pursuit of ever-greater efficiency is considered an inherently good thing. But it has become too much of a good thing. Our obsession with efficiency has inadvertently shifted the shape of our economic outcomes: from a large middle class and smaller numbers of rich and poor (think of a bell-shaped curve) to a greater share of benefits accruing to a thin tail of already rich Americans (a Pareto distribution). We must stop treating the economy as a perfectible machine, Martin argues, and shift toward viewing it as a complex adaptive system in which we must seek a fundamental balance of efficiency with resilience. To achieve this, we need to keep in mind the whole while working on the component parts; pursue improvement, not perfection; and relentlessly tweak instead of attempting to find permanent solutions. Filled with keen economic insight and advice for citizens, executives, policymakers, and educators, When More Is Not Better is the must-read guide for saving democratic capitalism"--

Capitalism --- Distribution (Economic theory) --- Industrial efficiency --- Wealth --- United States --- Economic conditions --- Capitalism - United States --- Industrial efficiency - United States --- United States - Economic conditions - 1945 --- -Capitalism --- -Capitalism - United States

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One of the most prolific authors of the 21st Century, Dr. Robert Carkhuff, is releasing his entrepreneurial vision in Saving America!-Economic Freedom and The Generative Entrepreneur. Troubled by the failure of classical economists, he is providing us with the new model for success. In this work, Carkhuff, a lifelong scientist, relates the successful entrepreneurial models that he has employed in all areas of human endeavor: individually, organizationally, culturally, and economically. He concludes that America's greatest need is for a ""Generative Stimulus Package"" which applies to all areas

Capitalism -- United States. --- Entrepreneurship -- Econometric models. --- Free enterprise -- United States. --- Industrial marketing. --- United States -- Economic policy.

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We are poised between an old world that no longer works and a new one struggling to be born. Surrounded by centralized hierarchies on the one hand and predatory markets on the other, people around the world are searching for alternatives. The Wealth of the Commons explains how millions of commoners have organized to defend their forests and fisheries, reinvent local food systems, organize productive online communities, reclaim public spaces, improve environmental stewardship and re-imagine the very meaning of "progress" and governance. In short, how they've built their commons. The Wealth of the Commons is about history, political change, public policy and cultural transformation on a global scale--but most of all, it's about individual commoners taking charge of their lives and their endangered resources.

Land. Real estate --- Political philosophy. Social philosophy --- Community organization --- Public goods --- Commons --- Capitalism --- Commons - United States --- Capitalism - United States

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"American Capitalism is an important contribution to our understanding of postwar American thought and culture. It will force historians to revise their pantheon of important thinkers for the period."--George Cotkin, author of Existential America.

Capitalism -- United States. --- Right and left (Political science). --- United States -- Economic policy. --- Capitalism --- Right and left (Political science)