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Why “wealth bias” is a holdover from a pre-democratic past—and how to restore a healthier balance of power:  “Thought-provoking . . . well-documented and readable.” — Library Journal Wealth inequality, corporate welfare, and industrial pollution are symptoms—the fevers and chills of the economy. The underlying illness, says  Business Ethics  magazine founder Marjorie Kelly, is shareholder primacy: the corporate drive to make profits for shareholders no matter who pays the cost. In  The Divine Right of Capital , Kelly argues that focusing on the interests of stockholders to the exclusion of everyone else’s interests is a form of discrimination based on property or wealth. She shows how this bias is held by our institutional structures, much as they once held biases against African Americans and women.  The Divine Right of Capital  exposes six aristocratic principles that corporations are built on, principles that we would never accept in our modern democratic society but which we accept unquestioningly in our economy. Wealth bias is a holdover from our pre-democratic past. It has enabled shareholders to become a kind of economic aristocracy. Kelly shows how to design more equitable

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Author

Marjorie Kelly; William Greider

Publisher

Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Incorporated

Published

2003

Language

EN

ISBN

9781609945459

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Economics, Management, Social Science

Rating

4.16 / 5 (8 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13