Tyranny of the Bottom Line: Why Corporations Make Good People Do Bad Things (BK Currents)
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Number of Pages: 296
Published: 1996-01
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 1881052753
ISBN-13: 9781881052753
Tyranny of the Bottom Line tells how the corporate system, originally created to serve the public interest, has acquired immense power over the public. Largely unconstrained by a captive regulatory bureaucracy, corporations today exercise a silent dominance over much of our society. This dominion can produce substantial good, but can also bring injury and death to employees, financial and personal loss to customers, desolation to communities, poisonous pollution and hazardous waste to the nation. In Tyranny of the Bottom Line , Ralph Estes tells the story of corporate power gone awr...