Re: [greenyes] Corporation as Psychopath

[Helen Spiegelman <hspie@no.address>]

All good, important questions, Doug. You are probing some truth about "the 
market" that we all have to understand.

But also good questions are:

- why should corporations not be held to the same standards of 
accountability as other "persons" under the law (thank you for your 
posting, Jim Dyer)

- why did Adam Smith warn us (who has the reference here???) of the danger 
inherent in capitalism/the market in the absence of constraint?

Helen.

At 02:13 PM 2/25/2004, Doug Koplow wrote:
> -What would your ideal system for making goods and providing services, and 
> for creating the jobs people need to earn a living, look like?  Is there 
> an existing model where this system has been implemented?
>
> -How would it encourage efficient production, appropriately reward people 
> for their efforts, provide incentives for risk taking and generating new 
> technologies, prevent waste of scarce investment resources, and meet all 
> the various social criteria like environmental protection?
>
> -How would it avoid the problems you see endemic in market capitalism?
>
> -How would it avoid the problems that many socialist economies find 
> themselves in?