The Future Of The Corporation By Kuttner + The Squandering Of America

Another one who does is William Gates Sr., who writes....with co-author Chuck Collins: "Without our society's substantial investments in taxpayer-funded research, technology, education, and infrastructure, the wealth of the Forbes 400 richest Americans would not be so robust." The source of great wealth is not just private entrepreneurs, but the society they inhabit and the public resources on which they build. Collins, a Bostonian who gave away an inherited fortune while in his 20s, has organized a new group - Business for Shared Prosperity. Leaders like Warren Buffett should be prized, both as executives whose civic values shame their peers, and as advocates for better tax-and-spend policies generally. - Robert Kuttner, Boston Globe Nov 21 fyi-janet p.s Robert Kuttner's new book is "The Squandering of America: How the Failure of our Politics Undermines our Prosperity." The Squandering of America, Now In Bookstores http://www.squanderingofamerica.com/ Advance Praise for Robert Kuttner's The Squandering of America: "If I could assign one book to all the presidential candidates it would be this one. Robert Kuttner, perhaps the most insightful economic commentator in the country, has done it again." -Barbara Ehrenreich "Bob Kuttner nailed it ten years ago in Everything for Sale: markets alone can produce wealth but alone they never produce justice or even a decent standard of living for all. Those are the work of democracy. Kuttner was a prophet; he saw what the growing divide between the rich and everyone else was doing to America's social contract-you know, the one that begins "We, the People"-and he called for a revival of the politics of fairness. In this new and wise book he walks among the wreckage strewn across the landscape by the fundamentalist ideology that took hold in Washington and says there is still hope of averting lasting economic calamity. But his message is clear: Hurry!" -Bill Moyers ====================== http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2007/1/21/the_future_of_the_corporation/

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