Executive's Compass Business and the Good Society

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ISBN: 9780195096446

ISBN-10: 0195096444

ISBN-13: 9780195096446

Edition: 1993

Authors: James O'Toole

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American society has become increasingly polarized by single- and special-interest groups: the Greens, who demand environmental purity; admirers of Japan who want a national industrial policy; supply-side economists who want government to all but disappear. This collision of values has turned America into a battleground of either/or tradeoffs: the community vs. the individual, the environment vs. jobs, the rights of each ethnic group vs. the needs of the nation for unity. Whose values should prevail? Those of Libertarians? Communitarians? Egalitarians? Corporatists? The nation's leadership role in the post-communist world will be largely determined by how such conflicts in the political…

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List price: $23.99
Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/20/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 176
Size: 8.15" wide x 5.51" long x 0.47" tall
Weight: 0.440
Language: English



Foreword




Introduction: "Whose Values?"



Why We Disagree



Four Poles of the Good Society


Liberty


Equality


Efficiency


Community



Democracy: Wellspring of the Good Society


Appendix A Corporate Applications


Appendix B Debating Public Policy


Bibliography


Acknowledgments


Name Index