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Hard Advice to Follow
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14517 |
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BOOK WORLD
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3 / 1988 |
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John Hoving
John Hoving is a Washington lobbyist who spent ten years as a
senior vice president for Federated Department Stores, Inc.,
Prior to that, he was vice president for executive action of
the Air Transportation Association. |
Anything that sheds light on how major American corporations can survive and prosper in an increasingly unfriendly world is to be welcomed. An objective, creative analysis of how these major economic institutions developed, and what they are doing wrong is extremely useful, particularly if coupled with some solid signposts for the future. Whether Paul Weaver's book, in spite of its catchy title, provides either is an open question.
Weaver explains that, in the usual meaning of the terms, he is neither a conservative nor a liberal. He writes:
This book falls into neither camp. It shares with conservatism a belief in the marketplace and limited government--but it parts company from the conservatives when they refuse to admit that business has been a major backer and beneficiary of the government intervention that harms the economy. The book shares with liberalism the belief that business has been a major source of the nation's economic problems, and that business efforts to escape the discipline of the marketplace should be deplored and resisted. But it parts company with liberals where they go on to accept government intervention as the cure for most economic problems rather than fight it as the disease itself.
Certainly a bold statement of purpose: He not only proposes to analyze but to present a proposed program designed to guide business leaders back to the paths of righteousness for their own good and for the good of America. But before we get to that, it is worth reviewing the case he presents.
Importantly, Weaver is a trained observer and
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