When the Stars Are Right by Scott R Jones

When the Stars Are Right by Scott R Jones

More than ever before, this is the book our economy needs. - Dr. Rajiv Shah, president of the Rockefeller Foundation

Unwilling to settle for easy answers or superficial changes, O'Leary and Valdmanis push us all to ask more of our economic system. - Senator Michael F. Bennet

This provocative book takes us inside the fight to save capitalism from itself.

Corporations are broken, reflecting no purpose deeper than profit. But the tools we are relying on to fix them--corporate social responsibility, divestment, impact investing, and government control--risk making our problems worse.

With lively storytelling and careful analysis, O'Leary and Valdmanis cut through the tired dogma of current economic thinking to reveal a hopeful truth: If we can make our corporations accountable to a deeper purpose, we can make capitalism both prosperous and good.

What happens when the sustainability-driven CEO of Unilever takes on the efficiency-obsessed Warren Buffett? Does Kellogg's--a company founded to serve a healthy breakfast--have a sacred duty to sell sugary cereal if that's what maximizes profit? For decades, government has tried to curb CEO pay but failed. Why? Can Harvard students force the university to divest from oil and gas? Does it even matter if they do?

O'Leary and Valdmanis, two iconoclastic investors, take us on a fast-paced insider's journey that will change the way we look at corporations. Likely to spark controversy among cynics and dreamers alike, this book is essential reading for anyone with a stake in reforming capitalism--which means all of us.

Jones, Scott R.: - Scott R. Jones is a Canadian writer living in Victoria, BC, with his wife and two frighteningly intelligent spawn. His stories have appeared in many anthologies in the past decade, as well as Innsmouth Magazine, Pseudopod, Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, among others. He's also the author of the non-fiction work When The Stars Are Right: Towards An Authentic R'lyehian Spirituality (Martian Migraine Press) and the editor of the anthologies RESONATOR: New Lovecraftian Tales From Beyond; Cthulhusattva: Tales of the Black Gnosis; A Breath from the Sky: Unusual Stories of Possession; and Chthonic: Weird Tales of Inner Earth. He was once kicked out of England for some very good reasons.

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ISBN 13	9780987992888
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Title	When the Stars Are Right
Author	Scott R Jones
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Binding type	Paperback
Publisher	Martian Migraine Press
Year published	2014-10-01
Number of pages	146
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