The distrust that Americans have traditionally had for business corporations has only been worse in recent years. As a result of their reckless pursuit of profit and abandonment of any consideration for society's expenses, corporations continue to accumulate wealth and influence at an astounding pace. Jimmy Hairston contends in this book that this was not how the corporation's tale had to end. He discovers that businesses have always been designed with the societies they serve as their primary focus. From the building of the roads and aqueducts in ancient Rome to the cultural blossoming of the Renaissance to the development of the middle class in the twentieth century, corporations facilitated everything. Hairston contends that businesses may aid in the creation of a society in which all of us-not just shareholders-benefit from the profits of business by recapturing this original spirit of civic virtue.
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