Greed, Inc.  Greed, Inc.  Why Corporations Rule the World and
How We Let It Happen  Why is it that multinational drug
companies hide or falsify unfavorable results? Why do automakers
knowingly sell us unsafe cars? Why is big business allowed to
poison our environment—and us? Why is our food so unhealthy,
with obesity growing at such an alarming rate? Why are we
working such long hours and enjoying life less? This timely and
important book places the blame for much of what ails
contemporary society squarely on one institution: the modern
publicly traded corporation, which enjoys the legal status of an
individual but does not seem bound by the same legal and moral
responsibilities, or, in fact, by its nature that is brutally
and implacably selfish.  While recognizing the positive
contributions corporations have made over the past two centuries
to science, technology, and medicine, Rowland examines the greed
at the core of it all and pinpoints what went wrong and how we
can free ourselves from the “Greed is good