IN PRAISE OF INEFFICIENCY: SHOULD WE SERVE THE ECONOMY OR SHOULD IT SERVE US?
The Hartmann Report
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The Core Principle of Corporations
In 1983 Ronald Reagan instructed the Federal Trade Commission to stop enforcing antitrust laws. When they did you had giant corporations merging with each other or swallowing whole medium and small companies. The cancer stage of capitalism is where it basically has metastasized and eaten the economy, he says. He argues that a corporation should not just have an obligation to its own bottom line it should also have an obligationto its community.
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