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  • Action Items

  • Alex Edmans, London Business School
  • Book:
    Grow the Pie
    Published online:
    27 March 2020
    Print publication:
    26 March 2020, pp 307-316

  • Summary

    This section provides practical suggestions for acting on the ideas of this book. I’ve categorised them into ideas for leaders, boards, investors and citizens. Since many of the book’s principles apply across several members of society, some ideas appear in more than one place, and ideas in different sections may still be relevant for a particular member.

  • Introduction

  • Alex Edmans, London Business School
  • Book:
    Grow the Pie
    Published online:
    27 March 2020
    Print publication:
    26 March 2020, pp 1-10

  • Summary

    The consensus among politicians, citizens and even executives themselves – on both sides of the political spectrum and throughout the world – is that business just isn’t working for ordinary people.

  • The Peruvian Amazon Co.: Credit and Debt in the Putumayo “Wild Rubber” Business

  • MARGARITA SERJE
  • Journal:
    Enterprise & Society / Volume 22 / Issue 2 / June 2021
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    26 March 2020, pp. 475-501
    Print publication:
    June 2021

  • In this article, I trace the credit and debt practices of a company incorporated in the UK to extract “wild rubber” in the Amazon. Based on reports by Sir Roger Casement, an officer of the British diplomatic service, I present a general description of the organization of the Peruvian Amazon Co., whose operation did not depend on investment in technology or infrastructure but, rather, on the flow of credit in the form of merchandise. I will discuss debt-peonage as the form of labor privileged by the wild rubber industry in the Amazon and show how it works when indigenous peoples and their territories are involved, as was the case in Putumayo. I argue that the concept of debt-peonage is misleading in this situation, as it obscures both the conditions and the relations into which the Indians, as a society, were forced. I will highlight the role of debt in this relation, commonly referred to as the “conquest” of the Indians, as constitutive of both physical and symbolic violence. I conclude showing how credit and debt, usually considered to be instrumental for the development of capitalism, are here at the core of a system that not only was opposed to the logic of the market, but also strangled local production and exchange networks. The “credit engine” became here an instrument of genocide.

  • 6 - Stewardship

  • from Part II - What Grows the Pie? Exploring the Evidence
  • Alex Edmans, London Business School
  • Book:
    Grow the Pie
    Published online:
    27 March 2020
    Print publication:
    26 March 2020, pp 135-165

  • Summary

    The value of engaged investors that both support and challenge management

  • 9 - Investors

  • from Part III - How to Grow the Pie? Putting it into Practice
  • Alex Edmans, London Business School
  • Book:
    Grow the Pie
    Published online:
    27 March 2020
    Print publication:
    26 March 2020, pp 225-245

  • Summary

    How to turn stewardship from a policy into a practice

  • 10 - Citizens

  • from Part III - How to Grow the Pie? Putting it into Practice
  • Alex Edmans, London Business School
  • Book:
    Grow the Pie
    Published online:
    27 March 2020
    Print publication:
    26 March 2020, pp 246-274

  • Summary

    How individuals can act and shape business, rather than be acted upon

  • How to Read This Book

  • Alex Edmans, London Business School
  • Book:
    Grow the Pie
    Published online:
    27 March 2020
    Print publication:
    26 March 2020, pp 11-12

  • Summary

    Given the broad intended audience, this book contains a variety of material, some of which will be of most interest to particular types of readers. As a result, there are different paths through this book. The best approach, naturally, is to read all chapters in order. They’re designed to be an integrated whole – each chapter builds on the next, there are multiple cross-references between chapters and some examples run throughout the book. However, readers short on time may choose to focus on particular chapters, depending on their objectives.

  • Corporate Profitability and Economic Policy During Argentina’s Great Depression, 1929–1934

  • JOSEPH A. FRANCIS, CARLOS NEWLAND
  • Journal:
    Enterprise & Society / Volume 22 / Issue 2 / June 2021
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    26 March 2020, pp. 538-565
    Print publication:
    June 2021

  • An analysis of corporate profitability leads to a reevaluation of economic policy during Argentina’s Great Depression. While the overall profit rate collapsed, some sectors were more affected than others: Commerce, insurance, and agriculture were worst hit, followed by transportation, industry, and finally banking, which was a beneficiary of economic policy, especially the decision not to default on or renegotiate the external public debt. Had a different economic policy been pursued, it is likely that the international crisis would not have affected Argentina so severely. Most importantly, it would have been possible to further devalue the peso, which would have benefitted both agriculture and industry. Moreover, interest rates would have been lower, and continued government borrowing would not have crowded out investment in the private sector. An analysis of corporate profitability thus leads to a less positive view of economic policy during Argentina’s Great Depression than is often found in the existing literature.

  • 8 - Enterprises

  • from Part III - How to Grow the Pie? Putting it into Practice
  • Alex Edmans, London Business School
  • Book:
    Grow the Pie
    Published online:
    27 March 2020
    Print publication:
    26 March 2020, pp 187-224

  • Summary

    The power of purpose and how to make it real

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