Taming The Octopus: The Long Battle For The Soul Of The Corporation,New

Taming The Octopus: The Long Battle For The Soul Of The Corporation,New

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The untold story of how efforts to hold big business accountable changed American capitalism.Recent controversies around environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investing and woke capital evoke an old idea: the Progressive Era vision of a socially responsible corporation. By midcentury, the notion that big business should benefit society was a consensus view. But as Kyle Edward Williamss brilliant history, Taming the Octopus, shows, the tools forged by New Deal liberals to hold business leaders accountable, such as the Securities and Exchange Commission, narrowly focused on the financial interests of shareholders. This inadvertently laid the groundwork for a set of fringe views to become dominant: that market forces should rule every facet of society. Along the way, American capitalism itself was reshaped, stripping businesses to their profitmaking core.In this vivid and surprising history, we meet activists, investors, executives, and workers who fought over a simple question: Is the role of the corporation to deliver profits to shareholders, or something more? On one side were business statesmen who believed corporate largess could solve social problems. On the other were libertarian intellectuals such as Milton Friedman and his oftforgotten contemporary, Henry Manne, whose theories justified the ruthless tactics of a growing class of corporate raiders. But Williams reveals that before the activist investor emerged as a capitalist archetype, Civil Rights groups used a similar playbook for different ends, buying shares to change a company from within.As a rising tide of activists pushed corporations to account for societal harms from napalm to environmental pollution to inequitable hiring, a new idea emerged: that managers could maximize value for society while still turning a maximal profit. This elusive ideal, stakeholder capitalism, still dominates our headlines today. Williamss necessary history equips us to reconsider democracys tangled relationship with capitalism. 4 line illustrations

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