From Capitalistic to Humanistic Business is a ground-breaking new book that addresses the challenges to shareholder capitalism. By firstly beginning with a set of contributions that restitutes fair play in the market place as a central element for recalibration of the system, the second set highlights the important notion of qualitative growth as a way to address the challenges on systemic, organizational and individual levels. The book then goes on argue the need to refocus our economic system around community and cooperation. The fourth and final set of contributions draws attention to specific interventions to address the current challenges and transform capitalism.
Author(s): Michael Pirson, Ulrich Steinvorth, Carlos Largacha-Martinez, Claus Dierksmeier
Series: Humanism in Business Series
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2014
Language: English
Pages: xviii+220
PART I: RESTITUTING FAIR PLAY
1. Roger L. Martin, The Gaming of Games and the Principle of Principles
2. Hans Kueng, The Global Economic Crisis Requires a Global Ethic
PART II: FOR QUALITATIVE GROWTH
3. Capra and Henderson¸ Qualitative Growth
4. Sandra Waddock, The Changing Social Role of Business in a World of Collapsing Boundaries
PART III: FOR COOPERATION AND COMMUNITY
5. Alperovitz and Dubb, The Possibility of a Pluralist Commonwealth and a Community-Sustaining Economy
6. Riane Eisler, Roadmap to a New Economics: Beyond Capitalism and Socialism
7. Noreena Hertz, Co-op Capitalism
PART IV: CHANGE BY SPECIFIC REFORMS: BASIC INCOME, PROPERTY RIGHTS, MONEY, EDUCATION
8. Ulrich Steinvorth, Marx's Critique of Capitalism and Basic Income
9. Shann Turnbull, What Defines Capitalism? What is Wrong With It and How to Fix it?
10. Fuders and Max-Neef, Local Money as Solution to Capitalist Global Financial Crises
11. Scharmer and Kaeuffer, Transforming from Ego to Eco Capitalism
Conclusions
