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AJohnston_22
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posted 07 September 2003 01:16 AM

Any one here interested in who are the best progressive/left wing business thinkers.

Mine are Micheal Shuman(Going Local), Paul Hawken (Ecololgy of Commerce,Natural Capitalism), David C. Korten (When Corporations Rule the World, and Post Corporate World)E.F. Schumacher (Small is Beautiful), Marjorie Kelly (Business Ethics Magazine) and Toby Heaps (Corporate Knights)

What do you think of these great leftist business thinkers?? or is it an oxymoron, or are there any others you can think right now??

[ 07 September 2003: Message edited by: AJohnston_22 ]

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DrConway
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posted 07 September 2003 02:15 AM

Jim Stanford (of Paper Boom fame) should be included as well.

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Tackaberry
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posted 07 September 2003 02:25 AM

Are you talking micro or macro?

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DrConway
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posted 07 September 2003 03:36 AM

Well, Stanford has suggestions on macroeconomic policy in his book, but he also has suggestions on the micro level for increasing the presence of cooperatives and other more democratic institutions within the corporate framework.

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Cougyr
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posted 07 September 2003 11:54 AM

There were a lot of "left" thinking business types, and I suspect there still are. When I hired on th the multi that provided me with my pension, the company took citizship very seriously. We had all kinds of seminars on ethics and responsibility, etc. They gave a lot of money to community projects and forfeited bad business. When they ran into racist customers, they pulled out and told those bigots to get lost.

Then came Reaganomics. You know the rest.

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kingblake
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posted 07 September 2003 02:21 PM

Herman Daly is apparently really good

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Willowdale Wizard
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posted 07 September 2003 05:00 PM

doug henwood and his publication, left business observer, are great.

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