The People's Business offers a comprehensive series of proposals for reforming and restructuring corporations so that they become the people's servants, not their masters Writing in a lively populist style, the authors pull together recommendations from the prestigious members of the Citizen Works Commission on Corporate Reform to present a clear-headed plan of action. Drutman and Cray discuss how corporations managed to achieve their current privileged position and offer a comprehensive approach for reconceiving corporations as engines of public prosperity, not private plunder.
The People's Business offers a comprehensive series of proposals for reforming and restructuring corporations so that they become the people's servants, not their masters Writing in a lively populist style, the authors pull together recommendations from the prestigious members of the Citizen Works Commission on Corporate Reform to present a clear-headed plan of action. Drutman and Cray discuss how corporations managed to achieve their current privileged position and offer a comprehensive approach for reconceiving corporations as engines of public prosperity, not private plunder.
Lee Drutman is a member of the Citizen Works Corporate Reform Commission and the former editor of Citizen Works’s Corporate Reform Weekly, an e-mail newsletter detailing the latest in corporate reform and corporate scandal. His commentaries have been published in many outlets, including the Los Angeles Times, New York Newsday, and the Providence Journal, and online at TomPaine.com, Alternet.org, and CommonDreams.org, among other websites. He has critiqued corporate wrongdoing on National Public Radio, the BBC, and NBC’s Today Show and is a regular commentator on Business Talk Radio’s Business Talk This Morning. Lee is a former staff writer for both the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Providence Journal. He is also a 1999 graduate of Brown University, where he earned Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude honors. Charlie Cray is a member of the Citizen Works Corporate Reform Commission and the director of the Center for Corporate Policy in Washington, D.C., a nonprofit public interest group working to make corporations publicly accountable. He is the former director of the Citizen Works Campaign for Corporate Reform. Between 1999 and 2002, he was associate editor of Multinational Monitor magazine, the only monthly magazine devoted exclusively to reporting on corporate abuses worldwide. He worked for over ten years for Greenpeace USA’s toxics campaign, focusing on the threats of PVC plastic and hazardous waste incineration. While at Greenpeace, he published a long report on Waste Management, Inc. and contributed to other reports on Dow Chemical and other companies. He worked as a paralegal for Mayer, Brown & Platt in Chicago, his hometown, and holds a B.A. in English and American studies from Amherst College.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction Chapter 1: Reclaiming the Public Purpose of the Corporation Chapter 2: Challenging the Corporate Claim to Constitutional Rights Chapter 3: Fixing the Gears of Corporate Governance Chapter 4: Freeing Markets from Corporate Control Chapter 5: Cracking Down on Corporate Crime Chapter 6: Saving our Democracy from a Corporate Takeover Conclusion: Building the Movement to Challenge Corporate Power
Introduction Chapter 1: Reclaiming the Public Purpose of the Corporation Chapter 2: Challenging the Corporate Claim to Constitutional Rights Chapter 3: Fixing the Gears of Corporate Governance Chapter 4: Freeing Markets from Corporate Control Chapter 5: Cracking Down on Corporate Crime Chapter 6: Saving our Democracy from a Corporate Takeover Conclusion: Building the Movement to Challenge Corporate Power
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