Other Resources

The following list includes books and other resources that deal with the concept of capitalism and its principal expression - corporations - and how that area of human activity is evolving and changing towards a more enlightened expression. The books are described in the following order: those at the top of the list deal more with the positive changes that are taking place or being advocated, wherein those more towards the bottom relate to various perspectives on the problems of corporations and the parts that need to be changed - roughly, solutions versus problems (even though the "problems" books often do provide some solutions).

Other Books

"Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism"  (Hardcover) by Muhammad Yunus, author of "Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty", founder of the Grameen Bank, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, humanitarian and visionary. In his book, Yunus proposes the creation of a new form of corporation dedicated to "Social Business" wherein these businesses would be tasked with tackling social problems from poverty and pollution to inadequate health care and lack of education and more. (CD version) 

"Corpocracy: How CEOs and the Business Roundtable Hijacked the World's Greatest Wealth Machine - And How to Get It Back" (Hardcover) by Robert A. G. Monks,  Bob Monks is the founder of Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS), The Corporate Library, the LENS Fund, LENS Governance Advisors and Governance for Owners. A former CEO and director of numerous companies, he was named a founding trustee of the Federal Employees’ retirement system by Ronald Reagan. This book is a clear and careful analysis by one of the nation’s leading shareholder activists which shows how corporations seized control, how they have abused their power, and what we can do to rein them in again.

"Capitalism at the Crossroads: Aligning Business, Earth, and Humanity" (Paperback) by Stuart L. Hart (forward by Al Gore), Prof. Cornell University and leading proponent of sustainability and addressing the needs of the poor throughout the world. In this book, Hart advocates that the corporate sector can be the catalyst for a force of global development in which business can generate growth and satisfy social and environmental concerns.

"Megatrends 2010: The Rise of Conscious Capitalism" (Hardcover) Patricia Aburdeen, co-author of the Megatrends series of books which have sold over 14 million copies.  In Megatrends 2010, Aburdene, investigates corporate social responsibility and identifies seven megatrends that will redefine business in the coming years. Ms. Aburdeen wrote about Mr. Sauvante's efforts to change California's laws to make corporations more socially and environmentally responsible pp.173-175. (Paperback) (CD version)

"Small Giants: Companies That Choose to Be Great Instead of Big" (Hardcover) by Bo Burlingham, Editor-at-Large for INC. Magazine and coauthor of "The Great Game Business. In Small Giants, Burlingham takes us deep inside fourteen remarkable privately held companies, in widely varying industries across the country, that have chosen to march to their own drummer and can serve as good role models for what corporations could be like.  (Paperback)

"The Divine Right of Capital: Dethroning the Corporate Aristocracy" (Hardcover) by Marjorie Kelly, Business Ethics magazine founder. In her book, Kelly argues that focusing on the interests of stockholders to the exclusion of everyone else's interests is a form of discrimination based on property or wealth. (Paperback)

"Unequal Protection: The Rise of Corporate Dominance and the Theft of Human Rights" (Hardcover) by author and radio personality Thom Hartmann, gives a chronicle of the history of corporations, wherein he emphasizes the development of corporate personhood and how it serves as the chief impediment to desirable corporate behavior. ( Paperback)

"The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power" (Hardcover) by Joel Bakan, a Canadian attorney and law professor. In this book, Bakan contends that today's corporation is a pathological institution. His book chronicles the rise of the modern corporation and explains how the legal foundations defined for them go back several centuries, and how those foundations have sown the seeds for the makeup and behavior of corporations today. (Paperback)

Other Videos

The Corporation (a movie on DVD) by Mark Achbar and Jennifer Abbot. Based on the book "The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power" by Joel Bakan, who served as an advisor on the film. This documentary aims at nothing less than a full-scale portrait of the most dominant institution on the planet Earth in our lifetime--a phenomenon all the more remarkable when you consider that the corporation as we know it has been around for only about 150 years.