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The profiteers : how business privatizes profits and socializes costs /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Marquis, Christopher, Prof (Author)
Corporate Author: EBSCOhost
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : PublicAffairs, 2024.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Social responsibility of business.
Corporate profits > Moral and ethical aspects.
Corporate profits > Social aspects.
Entreprises > Responsabilité sociale.
Entreprises > Profits > Aspect moral.
Entreprises > Profits > Aspect social.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Business's free lunch: Recognizing the hidden costs
  • Society pays the bill: How we are tricked into covering business's hidden costs
  • Who pays for carbon emissions?
  • Who pays for damage to the earth?
  • Who pays for cheap goods?
  • Who pays for cheap labor and inequality?
  • Who pays for systemic discrimination?
  • Governing with the Commons in mind
  • Commons first finance and ownership
  • Corporate activism for the Commons
  • Consumption and the Commons: Beliefs to action
  • Conclusion: We are up to the challenge of systems change.