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LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Teach Business properly at Brandeis
Letters to the Editor | 3/17/09
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To the Editor:
In view of today's aggrandizing business practices, I have been wondering what, exactly, is taught in the business schools.
Our businesspeople seem intent on squeezing consumers dry. This, I believe, is a destructive, even anti-businesslike practice. The current mindset of predatory capitalism has consumed the idea of free enterprise and led to what could be called government enterprise. Greed, it appears, is not good. Greed represents the "ambitious sacrifice of the many to the aggrandizement of the few," according to Federalist Paper No. 57.
It would be helpful if the nation had one business school that recognized the importance of cooperative capitalism to the economy, an approach that could revive the idea of free enterprise, which, of course, is a function of liberty. It would be fitting if that school carried the name of Louis D. Brandeis, the great jurist who believed that business profits came from serving, not exploiting, employees and consumers.
-David R. Zukerman '62
In view of today's aggrandizing business practices, I have been wondering what, exactly, is taught in the business schools.
Our businesspeople seem intent on squeezing consumers dry. This, I believe, is a destructive, even anti-businesslike practice. The current mindset of predatory capitalism has consumed the idea of free enterprise and led to what could be called government enterprise. Greed, it appears, is not good. Greed represents the "ambitious sacrifice of the many to the aggrandizement of the few," according to Federalist Paper No. 57.
It would be helpful if the nation had one business school that recognized the importance of cooperative capitalism to the economy, an approach that could revive the idea of free enterprise, which, of course, is a function of liberty. It would be fitting if that school carried the name of Louis D. Brandeis, the great jurist who believed that business profits came from serving, not exploiting, employees and consumers.
-David R. Zukerman '62
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susan greene merewitz
posted 3/17/09 @ 10:11 AM EST
Amen ... well said.
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