The Divine Right of Capital
Dethroning the Corporate Aristocracy
Excesses arise inevitably from a system that measures success only as a rising share price. There is outrage today about the illegitimacy of CEO gains. But nowhere will you find outrage about the illegitimacy of shareholder gains, for that is the sun around which the system revolves. To question this is to question the divine right of capital.
This is not the story of a few bad-apple CEOs but of an economic system designed to do what it did: to enrich a few—a corporate aristocracy—at the expense of the many. This book questions the idea that achieving a 15 percent return for a billionaire is more important than paying employees a living wage or protecting a community’s water. The Divine Right of Capital shows how to fundamentally redesign the system—using the founding ideals of America.
$19.95, paperback, 288 pages, ISBN 978-1-57675-237-1
PDF ebook, ISBN 978-1-60994-194-9
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