Articles by Howard Pender
- Profile
- Howard Pender is currently the Convener of the Australasian Centre for Corporate Responsibility. In the past he has been a director of listed public companies. The views expressed here are solely his own. Thanks to James Thier for prodding him many years ago to think about the issues raised in this paper and to Caroline Le Couteur, MLA who co-wrote some of the papers this essay draws on.
Economy, Social Justice
The Divine Right Of Capital In Australia Today: Corporations, Community Interests, The Body Politic And The Natural Environment
There is a long and distinguished list of academic contributors to a large body of literature which addresses the question—what makes capitalist democracies work better/best/optimally? Some of the preconditions established in that literature are: that taxes/subsidies address externalities (1); that property rights are respected, contracts are well understood and cheaply, honestly and easily enforced; and that ‘stewards’ (for example, elected... Read More