âMore than ever before, this is the book our economy needs.â â Dr. Rajiv Shah, president of the Rockefeller Foundation
âUnwilling to settle for easy answers or superficial changes, OâLeary and Valdmanis push us all to ask more of our economic system.â â Senator Michael F. Bennet
This provocative book takes us inside the fight to save capitalism from itself.
Corporations are broken, reflecting no purpose deeper than profit. But the tools we are relying on to fix themâcorporate social responsibility, divestment, impact investing, and government controlârisk making our problems worse.
With lively storytelling and careful analysis, OâLeary and Valdmanis cut through the tired dogma of current economic thinking to reveal a hopeful truth: If we can make our corporations accountable to a deeper purpose, we can make capitalism both prosperous and good.
What happens when the sustainability-driven CEO of Unilever takes on the efficiency-obsessed Warren Buffett? Does Kelloggâsâa company founded to serve a healthy breakfastâhave a sacred duty to sell sugary cereal if thatâs what maximizes profit? For decades, government has tried to curb CEO pay but failed. Why? Can Harvard students force the university to divest from oil and gas? Does it even matter if they do?
OâLeary and Valdmanis, two iconoclastic investors, take us on a fast-paced insiderâs journey that will change the way we look at corporations. Likely to spark controversy among cynics and dreamers alike, this book is essential reading for anyone with a stake in reforming capitalismâwhich means all of us.