The Heroic Enterprise: Business and the Common Good

Profit-seeking and corporate responsibility are not fundamentally at odds, argues Hood. In fact, they are intimately linked. Businesses motivated by economic self-interest have powerful incentives to promote the common good. Technological advancements in the private sector have improved everyone's quality of life, concerns for the bottom-line have made the workplace safer than ever, and a desire to retain loyal workers has inspired flexibility among employers. Filled with anecdotes, The Heroic Enterprise shows how the free enterprise system encourages businesses to do good by doing well.