1980s

Do Good Ethics Ensure Good Profits?

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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What ever happened to the National Cooperative Bank?

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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Confessions of a Socialist Entrepreneur

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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