CORPORATIONS AND THE PUBLIC INTEREST

Private enterprise is rapidly taking hold as the world's dominant economic paradigm, but business scandals, environmental degradation, and rampant poverty are stark reminders that business alone - unregulated and unsupervised - will not solve the world's problems. Using a unique market-based approach and a socially inclusive definition of wealth, Corporations and the Public Interest offers a refreshing new system for assessing corporations' real commitment to the public. Steven Lydenberg's plan includes strategies for steering companies in socially responsible directions and imposing costs on those that neglect their responsibilities to the community.

Steven Lydenberg has spent thirty years in the social investment field. For eleven years, he was Director of Research with KLD Research & Analytics. He is currently Chief Investment Officer for Domini Social Investments LLC. He is the coauthor of Investing for Good: Making Money While Being Socially Responsible and Rating America’s Corporate Conscience: A Provocative Guide to the Companies Behind the Products You Buy Every Day, and was co-editor of The Social Investment Almanac: A Comprehensive Guide to Socially Responsible Investing.