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The Divine Right of Capital
The Divine Right of Capital By Marjorie Kelly. Note: Shel Horowitz's book, Principled Profit: Marketing That Puts People First, contains a great deal of other information about the interplay of marketing and social change, and ways to move a business toward both environmental and economic sustainablity. From a world once dominated by monarchy and aristocracy, civilization in the twentieth century crossed a great divide into a new world of democracy. But we have democratized only government-not economics. Our corporate worldview remains rooted in the predemocratic age, for it is a world devoted to wealth privilege, which is the hallmark of aristocracy. Wealth privilege means serving the wealthy few and disregarding the many. It is a bias built into the design of the corporation, particularly into its central mandate to maximize returns to shareholders.

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