Artigo de Paul Collier, economista, professor na Universidade de Oxford (autor de “O Futuro do Capitalismo”), publicado no Institute of Arts and Ideas: Future Capitalism
“From the 1970s, business schools taught their MBA students to focus only on profit: by the 1990s those students were running companies. For example, ICI, in my youth the most revered British company, changed its mission statement from that of being a world-class chemical company that contributed to society, to ‘maximising shareholder value’. Similarly, bankers and asset managers started to focus on quarterly profits.
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Many of the recent problems of capitalism are confined to Britain and the USA where bad ideas and big finance took root. In Scandinavia, Switzerland and Germany the norms of business are more pro-social. They expect to contribute to their local communities, for example by devote substantial resources to training of local youth.”.
