PART I

Shareholder Primacy and Its Discontents

I suspect most Union Carbide shareholders would have been happy to accept a somewhat lower dividend if this allowed Union Carbide to adopt safety measures that would have prevented the deadly explosion in Bhopal, India, that killed 2,000 and severely injured thousands more.

Lynn Stout

We need to rethink exactly what we consider our wealth to be, what it is that we value, and whether it can or should be expressed only in terms of numbers and money.

Jane Gleeson-White