Corporations and the Public Interest: Guiding the Invisible Hand

Lydenberg, Steven; Steven Lydenberg

ISBN 10: 1576752917 / ISBN 13: 9781576752913

Published by Berret-Koehler Publishers, Inc., San Francisco, CA, 2003

About this Item

170 pp. Clean, fresh copy and dust jacket with very light shelf wear, crisp pages and clean text.

Seller Inventory # 5vEc0037

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Corporations and the Public Interest: Guiding the Invisible Hand
• Publisher: Berret-Koehler Publishers, Inc., San Francisco, CA
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1576752917
• ISBN 13: 9781576752913
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Mark Can Bronkenhorst, MVB Design (Jacket Design); Joshua Dalsimer (Author Photo); Richard Wilson (Design)
• Edition: 1st Edition/ 5th Printing
• Condition: Like New
• Dust Jacket Condition: Like New
• Seller catalogs:
  • Finance, Investment, Savings
  • Social History & Studies, Comparative Sociology
  • Academic, Scholarly, Research

About this title

Synopsis

In this era of rampant corporate greed, abuse of power, and dwindling governmental regulations of corporate practices, Steven Lydenberg shows how government can use the marketplace itself to make corporations act more responsibly.

Detailing a comprehensive plan for disclosure, analysis, and debate by corporations, investors, consumers, and government, Lydenberg argues that we can focus corporations on creating real long-term wealth for all instead of plundering natural resources, dumping costs on society, and diverting assets to exorbitant executive payouts and other ethically questionable uses. Most importantly, he describes practical ways of rewarding those companies that succeed in creating long-term wealth for society, and punishing those that fail.

About the Author

Steven Lydenberg has spent thirty years in the social investment field. For eleven years, he was Director of Research with KLD Research & Analytics. He is currently Chief Investment Officer for Domini Social Investments LLC. He is the coauthor of Investing for Good: Making Money While Being Socially Responsible and Rating America’s Corporate Conscience: A Provocative Guide to the Companies Behind the Products You Buy Every Day, and was co-editor of The Social Investment Almanac: A Comprehensive Guide to Socially Responsible Investing.