The divine right of capital dethroning the corporate aristocracy
Wealth inequality, corporate welfare, and industrial pollution are symptoms-the fevers and chills of the economy. The underlying illness, says Business Ethics magazine founder Marjorie Kelly, is shareholder primacy: the corporate drive to make profits for shareholders, no matter who pays the cost.In...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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San Francisco, California :
Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Incorporated
[2003]
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| Edición: | 1st edition |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009627878706719 |
| Sumario: | Wealth inequality, corporate welfare, and industrial pollution are symptoms-the fevers and chills of the economy. The underlying illness, says Business Ethics magazine founder Marjorie Kelly, is shareholder primacy: the corporate drive to make profits for shareholders, no matter who pays the cost.In The Divine Right of Capital, Kelly argues that focusing on the interests of stockholders to the exclusion of everyone else's interests is a form of discrimination based on property or wealth. She shows how this bias is held by our institutional structures, much as they once held biases against blac |
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| Notas: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (281 p.) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781609945459 9781283523653 9786613836106 9781609941949 |
