26:4 issue contents - The New Corporatism
Article
Business as usual no longer holds. More than a decade on from the financial crash, fundamental failings in orthodox theories of the role of business and purpose of profit have become brutally clear. And, at the start of a new decade, growing inequality, a lack of shared prosperity, and a looming climate crisis have further exposed the limits of the status quo.
This issue looks to outline a new vision for the future of business – combining profit with purpose, to create a more just country for all.
Contents
- Editorial/ Carys Roberts, Chris Thomas, Shreya Nanda and Joshua Emden
- Riding the fourth wave / Cas Mudde
- Good work and how companies can achieve it/ Beth Farhat
- Automation Nation / Asheem Singh
- How to end shareholder primacy/ Lenore Palladino
- The myth of shareholder primacy/ Sahil Jai Dutta and Samuel Knafo
- The time for activism is now/ Bethan Livesey
- The swing of the pendulum/ Sam Mitha
- A risk too far?/ Helen Mercer
- The future of infrastructure financing/ Dexter Whitfield
- Were Labour's plans for business too radical?/ John Curtice
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