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9781610912389

Corporation 2020

Transforming Business for Tomorrow's World
  • ISBN-13: 9781610912389
  • Publisher: ISLAND PRESS
    Imprint: ISLAND PRESS
  • By Pavan Sukhdev
  • Price: AUD $90.99
  • Stock: 2 in stock
  • Availability: Order will be despatched as soon as possible.
  • Local release date: 14/11/2012
  • Format: Hardback (230.00mm X 160.00mm) 293 pages Weight: 570g
  • Categories: Cultural studies [JFC]
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There is an emerging consensus that all is not well with today's market-centric economic model. Although it has delivered wealth over the last half century and pulled millions out of poverty, it is recession-prone, leaves too many unemployed, creates ecological scarcities and environmental risks, and widens the gap between the rich and the poor. Around $1 trillion a year in perverse subsidies and barriers to entry for alternative products maintain “business-as-usuala while obscuring their associated environmental and societal costs. The result is the broken system of social inequity, environmental degradation, and political manipulation that marks today's corporations.
 
We aren't stuck with this dysfunctional corporate model, but business needs a new DNA if it is to enact the comprehensive approach we need. Pavan Sukhdev lays out a sweeping new vision for tomorrow's corporation: one that will increase human wellbeing and social equity, decrease environmental risks and ecological losses, and still generate profit. Through a combination of internal changes in corporate governance and external regulations and policies, Corporation 2020 can become a reality in the next decade'and it must, argues Sukhdev, if we are to avert catastrophic social imbalance and ecological harm.
 
Corporation 2020 presents new approaches to measuring the true costs of business and the corporation's obligation to society. From his insightful look into the history of the corporation to his thoughtful discussion of the steps needed to craft a better corporate model, Sukhdev offers a hopeful vision for the role of business in shaping a more equitable, sustainable future.

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. The Legal History of the Corporation

2. The Great Alignment: 1945–2000

3. Corporation 1920

4. Through the Looking Glass of Corporate Externalities

5. Incorporating Externalities

6. Accountable Advertising

7. Limiting Financial Leverage

8. Resource Taxation

9. Corporation 2020

10. The World of Corporation 2020

Notes

Index

"It's rare that reading someone else's book persuades you that a new book you are about to write is going in the wrong direction, but Corporation 2020 did that for (or perhaps to) me."
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