Corpocracy: How CEOs and the Business Roundtable Hijacked the Worlds Greatest Wealth Machine –– And How to Get It Back

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.

Spis treści:
Preface.
Acknowledgments.
Definition.
Chapter 1: An Audience with the Emperor.
Chapter 2: Economics Ascendant.
Chapter 3: The Godfather.
Chapter 4: The Business Roundtable.
Chapter 5: Inside the Corpocracy.
Chapter 6: House Take.
Chapter 7: Efficiences "R" Us.
Chapter 8: Return of the Blob.
Chapter 9: The Great and the Good.
Chapter 10: Still, I Dare to Dream.
Appendix.
Notes.
Index.

Nota biograficzna:
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.

Okładka tylna:
"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 bo nuses 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.