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The People's Business:Controlling Corporations and Restoring Democracy
[Hardback - 2004]
lee drutman
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Category: Business
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Publisher: Berrett-koehler Publishers | ISBN: 9781576753095 | Pages: 360
Shipping Weight: .68 | Dimensions: 6.5 x 1.13 x 9.5 inches

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Giant corporations wield excessive influence over our lives, often with frightening consequences: environmental destruction, political corruption, increased polarization of wealth, and stagnating wages and benefits. The rampant epidemic of accounting fraud, tax avoidance, outsourcing and war profiteering in recent years has reconfirmed the widespread conviction that corporations are getting increasingly out of control, with potentially dangerous consequences for the communities where they operate, their own employees and even for their owners, the shareholders.

The People’s Business tells us what we can do to fight back. Drutman and Cray show how corporations achieved their current privileged position and offer a comprehensive approach for reforming them so that they serve as engines of public prosperity, rather than as the tools of private plunder. They present recommendations from the prestigious members of the Citizen Works Commission on Corporate Reform—which includes such notable members as Ralph Nader, David Korten, Herman Daly, Medea Benjamin, and many others—to outline a clear-headed plan of action to:

Get corporations out of politics
Establish truly public-minded regulation of corporate behavior
Combat unfair market domination by a handful of large corporations
Crack down on corporate crime
Challenge the corporate claim to constitutional rights

Bolstered with relevant history and recent examples, The People’s Business details immediate measures for effectively reforming the corporation.

About the Author

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.

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