The Profiteers: How Business Privatizes Profit and Socializes Cost

A provocative investigation into the real costs of doing business today that challenges key operating assumptions of the corporate world, revealing how business profits from the public commons, shirks responsibility, and passes the costs to us. But The Profiteers is not just an expose of how businesses’ “free lunch” has led to climate and environmental damage, racism, low wages, and cheap goods. It also brings to light-of-day a new regenerative paradigm for tomorrow’s economy and tells the stories of a group of pioneers trying to not just reform but transform the way business is conducted all over the world.

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“Powerful, passionate, and persuasive. Christopher Marquis argues that business is both a principal cause of our current troubles and perhaps the most important cure. Drawing on fresh examples he demonstrates both how business has profited from destroying the natural world and the structure of our societies and how business leaders – working with other key stakeholders - can be powerful agents of change.” ,

“The Profiteers is a profound call to action for businesses to take responsibility for their environmental and social footprints. Marquis shows us that a better business model isn't just possible, it's imperative."

“This timely book is full of sharp insight on the devastating impacts of business as we've known it - a critical read for anyone who wants to understand how the deep design of business itself can and must be transformed.”

“Marquis has delivered a brilliant critique of today’s dangerous corporate practice that dumps social and environmental costs on to society in search for ever greater profits. The Profiteers is a wake-up call to businesses everywhere to reevaluate these shameful practices.”

“The Profiteers underscores that there is no partisan divide on the idea that business should make money the right way, and that it’s unfair and wealth-destroying when companies profit at the expense of others. The Profiteers identifies practical ways we can forge a more sustainable and responsible capitalism.”