Business and Society Review, Summer 1989
TO BE ETHICAL as a business because it may increase your profits is to do so for entirely the wrong reason. The ethical business must be ethical because it wants to be ethical.
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Self-distributed, 1986
WHEN the National Cooperative Bank was created by Congress in 1978, it was the object of some modest hopes. With offices thoughout the country, it would be a source of capital for new and sometimes risky cooperatives that were shunned by conventional lenders. A decade later, is a go-go…
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The Washington Monthly, October 1983
SEVEN years ago, at the age of 34, I decided to become a socialist entrepreneur. It seemed like a logical calling to pursue. As a journalist, I’d flung my share of arrows at the big corporations. But if the left rejected corporate capitalism, we had to show there are some workable alternatives.
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