A Better Way To Do Business
July, 2008
A NEW BREED OF AMERICAN CAPITALISM EMPHASIZES THE IMPORTANCE OF THE COMMON GOODAs Lily Tomlin once pointed out, "The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat." From Enron to Wal-Mart, Halliburton to Bear Stearns, a steady parade of corporate greed-heads has given business a bad name. Milton Friedman, a noted apologist for the "corporate mandate," insisted the ultimate moral imperative for Fortune 500 chief executives is to "make as much money...
