If You Give Up On Democracy, You

If You Give Up On Politics, You're Giving Up On Democracy. And If You Give Up On Democracy, You're Basically Saying To The Moneyed Interests, The Powerful People And Institutions Of Society, Take It All. That's A Self-fulfilling Prophecy. Then We Give Up. Then We Are 100 Percent Plutocracy.

I Think That It's Difficult To Talk About Large Questions Of Economics Or Social Policy Without Understanding The Building Blocks Of Society. And Those Building Blocks Are Organizations, The People Who Run Them, And The People Who Work In Them.

The Managers Of The Big Brands Have A Very Clear Responsibility. It's Attracting And Keeping Talented People In Order To Sustain And Build The Trustworthiness Of That Brand. There Is No Clearer Objective In The Economy. Your Economic Success Depends On Expanding And Building Your Economies Of Trustworthiness.

There Is A Crisis Of Public Morality. Instead Of Policing Bedrooms, We Ought To Be Doing A Better Job Policing Boardrooms.

Anyone Believing The Tpp Is Good For Americans Take Note: The Foreign Subsidiaries Of U.s.-based Corporations Could Just As Easily Challenge Any U.s. Government Regulation They Claim Unfairly Diminishes Their Profits - Say, A Regulation Protecting American Consumers From Unsafe Products Or Unhealthy Foods, Investors From Fraudulent Securities Or Predatory Lending, Workers From Unsafe Working Conditions, Taxpayers From Another Bailout Of Wall Street, Or The Environment From Toxic Emissions.