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social entrepreneurs who will be able to initiate and articulate values that more truly reflect America's changed needs. He shows how our traditional values-about work, government, and justice-first evolved and how recent changes in economic, political, and social structure have tended to render them irrelevant. That this poses a grave threat to business is clear. But, as Professor Chamberlain's stimulating book shows, it also provides American business with an important challenge: to participate in the "remaking of American values." His book marks a significant beginning in this direction.

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Neil W. Chamberlain is Armand G. Erpf Professor of the Modern Corporation at the Graduate School of Business, Columbia University. He is the author of, among many other works, Beyond Malthus (Basic Books, 1970), The Limits of Corporate Responsibility (Basic Books, 1973), and The Place of Business in America's Future (Basic Books, 1973), in addition to numerous articles in professional and popular journals.

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by Neil W. Chamberlain

THE LIMITS OF CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY

"...a closely reasoned and definitive treatise on the modern corporation and its impact on consumers, the community, the nation, and the world."  -Library Journal

"If the reader is interested in past, present, or potential relationships between large corporations and many of our serious contemporary social problems, I can think of no better source of original ideas and valuable insights than this book." -Dow Votaw, Sloan Management Review

"Neil Chamberlain has written an important, sobering book." -Bruce T. Allen, Wall Street Review

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THE PLACE OF BUSINESS IN AMERICA'S FUTURE

"... a frequently brilliant discourse based on a vast scholarship in history and the social sciences. Mr. Chamberlain sees business as the dominant power in the country and the chief determination of its values. And what emerges, slowly and cautiously, is an analysis of the role of American business which bodes little good for the future of this country-or for the world at large." -Victor Lebow, The Nation

"I can think of few works which present so much material about social analysis in such a readable form. The marriage of social theory to the study of business is most welcome." -David Vogel, Business and Society Review

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