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Big businesses have enthusiastically embraced globalisation, seeking out and profiting from new opportunities – wherever their brands, capabilities and technology have taken them. point. As moderate voices join the dialogue, the anti-globalisation lobby can no longer be dismissed as street protest culture or theatre.
Important questions remain:
– Can business compromise or should it simply back laissez-faire capitalism?
– How can business appeal to the politically and socially conscious consumer?
– Who is responsible for powerless stakeholders?
– Is it the role of business to fight world poverty?
These are just some of the questions addressed by a distinguished panel of business people, academics, advisers and policymakers in EBF’s autumn debate, including: Jean-Pierre Lehmann, Jagdish Bhagwati, Willem Bröcker, Anshu Jain, Stephen Young, David Held, Paul Craig Roberts, Laszlo Zsolnai, Canon Edmund Newell, David Bornstein, and Johny Johansson.
Editor’s Note: as expected, another good effort from EBF. I found the contributions from Stephen Young, Paul Craig Roberts and David Bornstein to be the most thought-provoking…
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