The Challenge to Power: Money, Investing, and Democracy

by John C. Harrington

Book Overview

Our only chance to save the planet and take back control of our economy and political system lies in our ability to control our dollars. In a brilliant synthesis of thirty years of experience, John C.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1931498962
• ISBN13: 9781931498968
• Release Date: October 2005
• Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing Company
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.5" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Tells how to fight fire with fire, through active citizenship, responsible investing, and shareholde

Corporations have great power on how democracy is handled in America: that's the message of and proof contained in The Challenge To Power: Money, Investing And Democracy. Individuals and other organizations need to break big business' hold on society and the world economy, argues Harrington, who has led the socially responsible investment movement for over thirty years: Challenge To Power tells how to fight fire with fire, through active citizenship, responsible investing, and shareholder activism.

Overload the corporate system

My link to this book is from a book review by William Baue which can be found at http://www.socialfunds.com/news/article.cgi/1854.html. "What is now needed is a strategy that is a 'systems' approach that coordinates all the stakeholder strategies at one time to overload the corporate system," Mr. Harrington. "Shareholder advocates will play a role, as will activists in the streets, NGOs in the community, labor in the workplace, and peasants, farmers, and workers in the fields of developing countries." "Corporations will not be able to deal with campaigns coordinated at the local, state, national, and international levels," he adds. "We need to act now as investors, as voters, as philanthropists, as executives, as consumers, as activists, and most important of all, as human beings concerned about the survival of our planet, our economy, and our struggling democracy." Let's all do this!