EBook For Taming the Octopus 1st Edition By Kyle Edward Williams

EBook For Taming the Octopus 1st Edition By Kyle Edward Williams

Table Of Content

1. Contents
2. Introduction: What Is the Corporation Good For?
3. 1. The New Princes of Industry
4. 2. The Single and Most Serious Danger
5. 3. Building the City of God
6. 4. Fighting for Jobs
7. 5. “A Bundle of Assets”
8. 6. The Rise of the Corporate Guerrilla Fighter
9. 7. Making Social Responsibility Corporate
10. 8. “There Is No Such Thing as a Corporate Responsibility”
11. 9. Nothing to Ask Permission For
12. Conclusion: Larry Fink, President of the World
13. Acknowledgments
14. Notes
15. Index
16. Copyright

Description

Taming the Octopus: How Big Business Changed American Capitalism

This book tells the story of how people tried to make big businesses act responsibly and how that changed American capitalism. In the mid-1900s, most people believed companies should help society. But as Kyle Edward Williams explains in Taming the Octopus, tools like the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), which were created to protect people, ended up focusing only on helping shareholders make money.

Over time, this allowed new ideas to grow, like the belief that markets should control everything. These changes made businesses focus only on making profits, which affected how they help or harm society today.