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ISBN: 9781931498975
Year Added to Catalog: 2005
Book Format: Paperback
Book Art: Bibliography, Appendices, Index
Number of Pages: 6 x 9, 376 pages
Book Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing
Old ISBN: 1931498970
Release Date: September 15, 2005
Web Product ID: 95

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Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION: WE ARE RUNNING OUT OF TIME

CHAPTER 1: ARE POLITICIANS AND GOVERNMENT RELEVANT?
Money in Politics – Protecting Our Privacy – The Corporate Return on Investment – The Privatization Tsunami – The Corporation as a Person – The Case Against Unocal

CHAPTER 2: HAVE CORPORATIONS RUN AMUCK?
Executive Privileges – Corporatization of Food – Health Care and Tobacco – Fuzzy Math and Voodoo Economics

CHAPTER 3: GROWING PAINS: THE SRI EXPERIENCE
Grassroots or Astroturf? – Working Assets – Progressive Asset Management – WaterHealth International, Inc. – The Dangers of Going Public – Healthy Signs

CHAPTER 4: SRI MUTUAL FUNDS: MAKING IT EASY
Socially Responsible Screening – The Learning Curve – Equity Funds – Socially Screened Balanced and Equity Funds – Bond Funds – Proxy Voting

CHAPTER 5: THE POWER OF NONPROFITS
Nonprofits Gone Awry – The Lack of SRI Investment Policies – The Missing Link Between Mission and Investments – Nonprofits Under Attack – Social Justice Groups That Get It – Program-Related Investments – Pension Funds and Labor

CHAPTER 6: SUBSTANCE OR ILLUSION
A Proliferation of Indexes – The Hostile Takeover of Sustainability and CSR – Corporate Codes of Conduct – Has Inclusiveness Changed Corporate Behavior? – Still Performing After All These Years – Investing in the Community

CHAPTER 7: SHAREHOLDER REVENGE
Shareholder Rights – The China Conundrum – Genetic Engineering – Monsanto: A Very Special Company – Amusement Park Safety and Walt Disney – Bank of America – The Harrington Investments Approach

CHAPTER 8: A NEW BEGINNING
Fighting Back: What Works, What Doesn’t – Sleeping With the Enemy – Politics and “Free” Trade – SRI Under Attack – The Struggle for Shareholder Power – Corporate Campaigns – The Costs of Environmental Performance – A Call To Action

TRIBUTE

APPENDICES
Appendix A – Working Assets Advertisement
Appendix B – Working Assets Criteria
Appendix C – Fund Descriptions
Appendix D – Coca-Cola Advertisement

NOTES

RESOURCES

INDEX


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