{"product_id":"9780393867237","title":"Taming the Octopus : The Long Battle for the Soul of the Corporation","description":"\u003cp\u003eRecent controversies around ESG investing and \"woke\" capital evoke an old idea: the Progressive-era vision of a socially responsible corporation. By the twentieth century, in fact, the notion that business leaders could benefit society had become a consensus view. But as Kyle Edward Williams's brilliant history shows, New Deal liberalism realised a kind of big business supervision narrowly focused on the financial interests of shareholders. This inadvertently laid the groundwork for a set of fringe views to become orthodoxy: that market forces should rule every facet of society. Along the way American capitalism itself was reshaped, stripping businesses to their profit-making core. As a rising tide of activists pushed corporations to account for societal harms from napalm to seatbelts to inequitable hiring, a new idea emerged: that managers could maximise value for society while still turning a maximal profit. This elusive ideal, \"stakeholder capitalism\", still dominates our headlines today. Williams's necessary history equips us to reconsider democracy's tangled relationship with capitalism.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rye Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45470280253661,"sku":"9780393867237","price":22.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0064\/1368\/0730\/files\/9780393867237.jpg?v=1720183209","url":"https:\/\/ryebooks.co.uk\/products\/9780393867237","provider":"Rye Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}