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A 3 page paper weighing whether business is good or bad for people and for the world. Socialists and intellectuals condemn business as being everything from merely distasteful to downright evil; others call for close corporate regulation to keep business in line. There is no question that business has been less than attractive in recent years, but the emerging concept of sustainability as competitive advantage holds promise of changing that track. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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3 pages (~225 words per page)
File: CC6_KScsrViews.rtf
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There is nothing new about corporate sleight of hand. It was the same force that was in effect in the late 19th and early 20th centuries that led
to the passage of the Sherman Antitrust Act and Theodore Roosevelts reputation as a cheerleader for "trust busting," breaking large businesses into smaller ones in efforts to restore competition.
It was the same force that led J.P. Morgan to bark at an advisor that his presence was for the purpose of discovering how to get around existing laws, not
to parrot to Morgan what those laws were intended to prevent. It also led to the creation of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) during the Great Depression that
followed the crash of the stock market in 1929. Today, America keeps sliding down the scale kept by Transparency International, that which measures
by survey the perceived corruption in the countries of the world. Several countries outpaced the US a few years ago. Currently the US does not even rank in
the top ten of the least corrupt nations in which to do business. Currently occupying a three-way tie for 17th place in 2004, the US is in danger of
falling out of the top 20. Accounting at some companies has been so creative that the SEC has required literally hundreds of them to restate their earnings for the
closing years of the decade of the 1990s and several former CEOs have been sentenced to prison time. US business has fallen into
the trap of chasing the short-term profits that make it more attractive to investors. Investors need to believe that they will gain return on their investment, and the only
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