Corporate Ethics International

Citigroup Report - Restructuring Citi to serve the Public Interest

Citigroup is among the world�s largest financial institutions. As of July 2009, it was also one-third owned by the U.S. government. Without the various subsidies and guarantees � totaling hundreds of billions of dollars � made available to Citigroup, it is very likely the bank would be insolvent. Many believe that � even with the government supports � with an honest accounting, it would be insolvent today. In the case of the failure of Citigroup, it would be taken over by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) which has a long record of �resolving� failed banks � albeit not banks of the size and reach of Citi.

An Evaluation Report on the project �Strengthening Responsible Corporate Citizenship in the Businesses of the MENA Region� [PDF]

This project was executed within the framework of the Fifth MENA Development Forum (MDF5);a partnership conference of the World Bank Group, the United Nations Development Programme and MENA think tanks.

Corporate Design

A report that challenges conventional views on the nature and role of corporations

The Challenge to Power: Money, Investing, and Democracy

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. Harrington gives investors the strategies to thwart corporate domination of the earth's resources, decentralize our economy, restore democracy, tame corruption, and regain community control of our financial resources.

TAMING THE GIANT CORPORATION: A National Conference on Corporate Accountability

Corporations were originally chartered by the states in the early nineteenth century to be our servants not our masters. Now the servant has become master.

Global Politics and Institutions - A 'Utopistic' View

This paper emphasises the political and institutional dimensions of a different possible world in the future that conjoins the desires of progressive social movements everywhere and gestures thus towards a hopeful vision of new forms of collective action.[PDF]

The Responsibility Paradox

In Early 2007, thousands of cats and dogs in North America fell ill with kidney ailments. Many of the pets had dined chez Menu Foods Inc., a company in Ontario, Canada, that manufactures pet foods for more than 100 brands, including Procter & Gamble, Iams, Colgate-Palmolive�s Science Diet, and Wal-Mart�s Ol� Roy. By mid-April, investigators had traced the animals� illnesses to melamine, an industrial chemical that tainted a few of Menu Foods� raw ingredients. They then followed the thread to two suppliers in China, which had spiked the ingredients to cut costs and boost profits.

Ethical Markets: Growing the Green Economy

With insight, clarity, warmth, and enthusiasm Hazel Henderson announces the mature presence of the green economy. Mainstream media and big business interests have sidelined its emergence and evolution to preserve the status quo.

If Nature Had Rights

IT WAS THE SUDDEN RUSH of the goats� bodies against the side of the boma that woke him. Picking up a spear and stick, the Kenyan farmer slipped out into the warm night and crept toward the pen. All he could see was the spotted, sloping hindquarters of the animal trying to force itself between the poles to get at the goats�but it was enough. He drove his spear deep into the hyena.

"Capitalism Cannot Satisfy Us" Daniel Fortin and Mathieu Magnaudeix interview Pascal Lamy

World Trade Organization Director Pascal Lamy, one of globalization's shrewdest observers, rehabilitates the Marxist criticism of capitalism.

The Real Wealth of Nations: Creating a Caring Economics

In this powerful book, eminent social scientist Riane Eisler, author of the mega-bestseller The Chalice and the Blade, shows that the great problems of our time � such as poverty, inequality, war, terrorism, and environmental degradation � are due largely to flawed economic systems that set the wrong priorities and misallocate resources. Conventional economic models fail to value and support the most essential human work � caring and caregiving � so basic human needs are increasingly neglected, despair and ecological destruction escalate, and the resulting social tensions fuel many of the conflicts we face today.

Activists Call for a Movement of Movements to Control Corporate Power

In twenty years, the separation of corporation and state will be nearly as sacrosanct as the separation of church and state is today.A new international court will exist to punish corporate criminals. Corporate power will be significantly reduced.Well � as they say in New York � you gotta believe.

Strategic Corporate Initiative: Toward a Global Citizens� Movement to Bring Corporations Back Under Control

There are tectonic stresses building beneath the surface of our society that threaten a global earthquake unlike any we�ve seen in recent history. Global warming is accelerating; fossil fuels are being rapidly exhausted; critical eco-systems have been severely damaged; and the income gap between rich and poor is increasing rapidly. The root cause of most of these problems can be found in the excessive power of global corporations. To solve these problems, we must bring corporations back under our control. This will be one of the greatest challenges our society faces this century.

Supercapitalism: The Transformation of Business, Democracy, and Everyday Life

Reich sets out a clear course to a vibrant capitalism and aconcurrent, equally vibrant democracy. He argues forcefully that the spheres of business and politics must be kept distinct. He calls for an end to the legal fiction that corporations are citizens, as well as the illusion that corporations...