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Michael Brophy

Book review Michael Brophy 1 March 1999

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 …

Book review Michael Brophy 1 March 1999

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. …

Book review Michael Brophy 1 March 1999

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 …

Book review Michael Brophy 1 December 1998

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 …

Book review Michael Brophy 1 September 1998

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 Michael Brophy 1 June 1998 For Subscribers

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 …