Corpocracy
How CEOs and the Business Roundtable Hijacked the World's Greatest Wealth Machine -- And How to Get It Back
1st Edition
Will be published approx. on 28. December 2007
Book
Hardback
272 pages
978-0-470-14509-8 (ISBN)
Description
"A very, very important book."
--Paula Gordonhost, the Paula Gordon Show
Corporate governance expert Robert Monks takes on the country's biggest mega-corporations in this devastating account of corporate greed. Hugely inflated CEO salaries and bonuses and the wholesale exclusion of shareholders from governance of the companies they own are only symptoms of a far greater threat to democratic society: corporate takeover of the political process. Monks, a venture capitalist and member of several boards, shows how we can right the capitalist ship before it's too late--and restore the essential character of the companies that made America great.
Reviews / Votes
.a formidable polemic.its unarguable point about unaccountable corporate power cannot be ignored." (The Financial Times, January 28, 2008)"a facinating read" (City AM podcast www.cityam.com, Wednesday 23rd January 2008)".a timely new book.deserves to be read." (Pensions & Investments, Monday 21st January 2008) "a facinating read" (City AM podcast www.cityam.com, Wednesday 23rd January 2008).a formidable polemic.its unarguable point about unaccountable corporate power cannot be ignored." (The Financial Times, January 28, 2008)".a timely new book.deserves to be read." (Pensions & Investments, Monday 21st January 2008)More details
Product info
GB
Edition
1., Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Paper over boards
With dust jacket
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 164 mm
Thickness: 30 mm
Weight
458 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-470-14509-8 (9780470145098)
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
Robert A. G. Monks
Corpocracy
How CEOs and the Business Roundtable Hijacked the World's Greatest Wealth Machine -- And How to Get It Back
E-Book
06/2008
Wiley
€19.99
Available for download
Person
Robert A. G. Monks is the founder of ISS, The Corporate Library, the LENS Fund, and Governance for Owners. A CEO in two industries and the director of ten publicly traded companies, he was placed in charge of the national pension system and made a founding trustee of the Federal Employees Retirement System by Ronald Reagan. He has written six books in the fields of governance, including, with Nell Minow, Corporate Governance.
Content
Acknowledgements.
Preface.
Definition.
1. An Audience with the Emperor.
2. Economics Ascendant.
3. The Godfather.
4. The Business Roundtable.
5. Inside the Kleptocracy.
6. House Take.
7. Efficiences "R" Us.
8. Return of the Blob.
9. The Great and the Good.
10. Still, I Dare to Dream.
Summary.
Appendix.
Conclusion.