Building a More Just Economy with Martin Whittaker

Martin Whittaker is the founding CEO of JUST Capital, an independent nonprofit that tracks, analyzes, and engages with large corporations to improve how they serve all their stakeholders. In this episode of the New Human Movement, we talk to Martin about what’s required to move the vision of stakeholder capitalism from rhetoric to reality.
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Just Capital: justcapital.com
Don’t believe the cynics: Done right, stakeholder capitalism is what America needs (Fortune): fortune.com/20...
The Idea That Raising Wages Destroys Value Is A Fallacy (Forbes): www.forbes.com...

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It is interesting to note that not everyone agrees with the use of ESG to drive societal transformation through business, evidenced by the fact that more than half of states have legislation limiting or altogether banning ESG metrics.

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Does everyone agree that businesses are expected to "help solve society's problems" (instead of maintaining a focus on participating in the free and fair exchange of value in the marketplace within the already agreed upon constraints the public has decided through government regulation) since the public loses its voice in those solution choices?