Completing Capitalism

Introduction

Uprooting the Dysfunctions of Financial Capitalism

In a real sense all life is interrelated. All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be, and you can never be what you ought to be until I am what I ought to be . . . This is the interrelated structure of reality.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

It all started with an unusual question . . .

More than a year before the 2008 financial crisis, the global food and beverage company Mars, Incorporated, asked what the right level of profit should be for its business activities.

Although this question has been pondered by mankind ...