Author Archive:
Michael Brophy
The Crisis of Global Capitalism: Open society endangered by George Soros
We get off to a brisk start with The Crisis of Global Capitalism: ‘The global capitalist system which has been responsible for the remarkable prosperity of this country [the USA] in the last decade is …
East and West by Christopher Patten
East and West – an exquisitely written book – is on three levels. Level One is about why he insisted on democratizing Hong Kong knowing China wanted to take over a colony as a colony. …
Eat the Rich: A treatise on economics by P J O’Rourke
Eat the Rich provides a flamboyant slightly indigestible pudding! The title is taken from Chapter 11 of the book, which starts: ‘We’re so close to being rich. Everybody in the world could be as rich …
Cannibals with Forks: The triple bottom line of 21st century business by John Elkington
Page one is a list of enthusiastic endorsements from the likes of an ex-IBM CEO and the Prince of Wales Business Leaders Forum luminary on business leadership. We must assume therefore that business leaders will …
Corporate Philanthropy at the Crossroads: Edited by Dwight F Burlingame and Dennis R Young
Corporate Philanthropy at the Crossroads is an excellent book of course, but left me a little disappointed. Those who depend on a living doing research on the US non-profit sector have to produce volumes which …
Editorial – June 1998
There is intense interest in alliances. At the recent meeting of CIVICUS — World Alliance for Citizen Participation – in Budapest, representatives from governments, companies and non-profit organizations, as well as other organizations like the …