Corporate Ethics International : Recommended Reading

Recommended Reading

Corporate Ethics International is pleased to partner with our home-based, world’s largest independent bookseller Powell’s. A number of books in our Recommended Reading section are linked directly to the Powell’s website. Powell's will make a contribution to CEI for all purchases made when you directly link from our site.

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How Much Is Walmart Scamming Your State?
Wake Up Walmart

As states face budget shortfalls, firing teachers, public servants, and tightening their belts, Walmart is posting huge profits. Some of those profits are gained at the expense of your state because Walmart uses state tax loopholes, possibly costing states millions in revenues.

Community Opposition Works!
WalMartWatch

A new report by a professor at the Columbia School of Business examines how Walmart goes about expanding.

To Serve God and Walmart
by Bethany Moreton, Buy at Powell's/ Support BEN

In the decades after World War II, evangelical Christianity nourished America’s devotion to free markets, free trade, and free enterprise. The history of Wal-Mart uncovers a complex network that united Sun Belt entrepreneurs, evangelical employees, Christian business students, overseas missionaries, and free-market activists.

Public pays health care for private workers
by Cheryl Powell - Beacon Journal, Ohio.com

Thousands of workers across Ohio labor for a paycheck, but still lack health benefits from their employer for themselves or their children.

The Local Economic Impact of Wal-Mart
by Michael J. Hicks, Buy at Powell's * Support CEI/BEN

While there have been other books on Wal-Mart, none has provided scholarly economic analysis of the impact of this retail giant. "The Local Economic Impact of Wal-Mart" offers significant empirical evidence which highlights important questions.

Javatrekker: Dispatches from the World of Fair Trade Coffee
by Dean Cycon, Buy at Powell's

In each cup of coffee we drink the major issues of the twenty-first century — globalization, immigration, women's rights, pollution, indigenous rights, and self-determination — are played out in villages and remote areas around the world. In Javatrekker: Dispatches from the World of Fair Trade Coffee, a unique hybrid of Fair Trade business, adventure travel, and cultural anthropology, author Dean Cycon brings readers face-to-face with the real people who make our morning coffee ritual possible.

No-One Makes You Shop at Wal-Mart: The Deception of Individual Choice
by Tom Slee

Every week, millions of North Americans take advantage of their freedom of choice by shopping at Wal-Mart. Ironically, the cumulative effect of these actions may be to remove real choice by driving alternatives to Wal-Mart out of business. As a result, many who spend their money at a Wal-Mart store may nevertheless end up wishing that it had never been built.

Wal-Mart: The Bully of Bentonville: How the High Cost of Everyday Low Prices Is Hurting America
by Bianco Anthony

The largest company in the world by far, Wal-Mart takes in revenues in excess of $280 billion, employs 1.4 million American workers, and controls a large share of the business done by almost every U.S. consumer-product company. More than 138 million shoppers visit one of its 5,300 stores each week.

The Small-Mart Revolution: How Local Businesses Are Beating the Global Competition
by Michael Shuman , Buy at Powells and Support BEN

Defenders of globalization, free markets, and free trade insist there's no alternative to mega-stores like Wal-Mart — Michael Shuman begs to differ. In The Small-Mart Revolution, Shuman makes a compelling case for his alternative business model, one in which communities reap the benefits of going local in four key spending categories: goods, services, energy, and finance. He argues that despite the endless media coverage of multinational conglomerates, local businesses give more to charity, adapt more easily to rising labor and environmental standards, and produce more wealth for a community. They also spend more locally, thereby increasing community income and creating wealth and jobs...

Are Chain Stores Ruining America?
by Kirsten Engdahl, Buy at Powells and Support CEI
November 1st, 2006