Our team consists of the following concerned individuals:
PHILIP KOTLER >> Dr. Philip Kotler – the “father of modern marketing” – is the former S.C. Johnson & Son Distinguished Professor of International Marketing at the Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management in Chicago. He is hailed by Management Centre Europe as “the world’s foremost expert on the strategic practice of marketing.” www.pkotler.org
- Trump’s Institutional Destruction: Ending Democracy in the USA (with Christian Sarkar)
- Who Will Win the U.S. Presidency in 2024?
- Why Can’t Billionaires Advance the Common Good? (with Christian Sarkar)
- Can Billionaires Save America?
- Is Trump a Fake Business Leader?
- What To Do About The Growing U.S. Income Gap Between The Rich And Everyone Else
- The Flywheel of Corruption: Why Our Democracy Isn’t Working (with Christian Sarkar)
- Is The U.S. Defense Budget Too Large?
- Let Us Fix American Democracy
- The Suffering Working Class – What Can Be Done?
- Will China’s State-Directed Capitalism Outperform the U.S.’s Unguided Democracy?
- Trump’s One-Year Scorecard
- Life, Death, and Taxes in a Jobless World
- How Well is American Capitalism Working?
- The Nightmare of Tax Reform
- The Closing of the Golden Door: When Fear Became U.S. Immigration Policy
- How did we get to Charlottesville? (with Christian Sarkar)
- A Manifesto for a Just Capitalism
- Should Government Put a Tax on ‘Sin’ Products and Services?
- Is Universal Basic Income Inevitable?
- Brand Confusion: What Do Our Political Parties Stand For? (with Christian Sarkar)
- It’s Time For A Single-Payer Healthcare System
- Trump’s Plans Will Turn America Into A Third World Country
- Kulturkampf: Trump’s War on the Arts
- Killing the Truth: How Trump’s Attack on the Free Press Endangers Democracy
- The “Terrorist” in the White House
- When the Wheels Fall Off Our Democracy
- Trump as a Utopian Thinker
- Are We Kissing Democracy Goodbye? (with Christian Sarkar)
- What would Make America Great Again? The Battle Between Two Definitions of Greatness
- Are We Facing a Jobless World?
- The Case for Taxing Securities Transactions
- The Robots are Coming! Will the American Economy Produce Enough Jobs?
- Can Marketing Improve Capitalism?
- What the Presidential Candidates Are Failing to Address About CEO Pay
- Are Capitalism and Democracy Compatible?
- Fix Capitalism – Join Us!
- Do We Really Want Democracy?
- Democracy in Decline: An Interview
- 5 Serious Problems With the Current Election
- Needed: A New Set of Income Tax Brackets
- Are CEO’s Overpaid? Ask Jamie Dimon!
- Phil Kotler on the Relationship between Marketing and Capitalism
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CHRISTIAN SARKAR >> Christian is the co-founder of the Regenerative Marketing Institute with Philip Kotler and Enrico Foglia. He is an author, artist, and entrepreneur.
- SNAP Out of It, America: What Can We Do to Stop the Cruelty? (with Philip Kotler)
- De-Americanization Strategy: De-Coupling from the USA in a Multipolar World
- The Kakistocracy: Exposing Trump’s Hypocrisy and the GOP’s War on DEI
- Crapitalism and the Degenerative Enterprise
- Wealth Supremacy: How the Extractive Economy and the Biased Rules of Capitalism Drive Today’s Crises [Book Review]
- Does Your Government Care? A Citizen’s Checklist for Regenerative Government
- “Ukraine: A War between the Past and the Future” – An interview with Iryna Tykhomyrova
- “Can Politics be Regenerative?” – An Interview with Sicily’s Cettina Martorana
- “Make the Sahara Green Again” – Elon, Jeff, Bill, and Zuck?
- Biden vs. Trump: A Tale of Two Narratives
- “Justice through Music” – An Interview with David Hinds from Steel Pulse
- Now that CEOs found purpose, what are they going to do with it? (with Philip Kotler)
- Will You Help Artist Ron English Build a “Welcome Wall”?
- Lamentations: Disaster-Capitalism, Puerto Rico, and the Art of Patrick McGrath Muñiz
- Trump THIS!: An Exhibition at the Art Car Museum
- The 2017 Annual “Stupid Company” Award: United Wins!
- Are We Kissing Democracy Goodbye? (with Philip Kotler)
- Democracy in Decline: An Interview with Philip Kotler
- Third Wave Capitalism: An Interview with John Ehrenreich
- Capitalism at the Crossroads: An Interview with Stuart Hart
- Sustainable Entrepreneurship: The MBA of the Future [An Interview with UVM Dean Sanjay Sharma]
- Art & Response: An Interview with Michael D’Antuono
- The Real Revolutionary: The Art of Packard Jennings
- Questioning Reality: Yoshua Okón’s Videos of Alienation
- The Struggle Against Joyless Materialism: The Art of Clark Fox
- Make it Rain (∄MIR): The Social Practice of Kenneth Tin-Kin Hung
- POPaganda: The Art and Crimes of Ron English
- Art Against Inequality: The Works of Eugenio Merino
- Challenging the Corpocracy: When Art Confronts Capitalism
- What is a Conscious Business? An Interview with Raj Sisodia
- How Thin Political Markets Undermine Democracy: An Interview with Karthik Ramanna
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MARK BLESSINGTON >> Mark is a sales and marketing consultant. He is also passionate about social justice and is delighted to participate in the FixCapitalism effort.
- What Drives US Income Disparity?
- Progressive Taxes: Needed to Offset Income Inequality?
- Fixing Obamacare—the Right Way
- No-Compromise: Why We (The People) Can’t Take It Anymore
- The Sad Legacy of Compromise Democrats
- Can We Fix Income Inequality?
- Death of the Shareholder and the Rise of the CEO Paymachine
- The Truth About Unemployment
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KARL HELLMAN >> Karl is the founder of a global management consulting firm dedicated to creating great marketers and sellers.
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ADDITIONAL CONTRIBUTORS
STANLEY STASCH >> Until recently, Stanley F. Stasch was the Charles H. Kellstadt Professor of Marketing at the Quinlan School of Business, Loyola University Chicago. Prior to that, from 1963 to 1977 he was a member of the faculty at the Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University.
- The U.S. Government’s Program Of Welfare For The Wealthy
- The Decline of the Middle Class: Stealth Governance and Income Inequality
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MAUREEN CONWAY >> Maureen Conway is a vice president of the Aspen Institute and Executive Director of the Institute’s Economic Opportunities Program (EOP). Ms. Conway founded EOP’s Workforce Strategies Initiative and has headed up workforce research at the Aspen Institute since 1999. She leads a team of researchers and consultants in a variety of initiatives to identify and advance strategies that help low-income Americans gain ground in today’s labor market.
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JOHN HAGEL >> John Hagel III is co-chairman for Deloitte LLP’s Center for the Edge with nearly 30 years of experience as a management consultant, author, speaker and entrepreneur.
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SCOTT DEWEY >> Scott Dewey is Faculty Research Librarian, UMN Law Library. Previously he was a research specialist and assistant director at the UCLA Law Library. Before that, he was a judicial attorney for the California Court of Appeal, Second District.
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JOANNE BERNSTEIN >> Joanne Bernstein is an author, consultant, speaker, educator, arts manager, and the author of Standing Room Only: Marketing Insights for Engaging Performing Arts Audiences.
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JAMES K. BOYCE >> James Boyce teaches economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
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I am so pleased to see someone talking about this issue. To me this perhaps the single most troubling thing about America. I have gradually become fed up with corporate America and the emergent oligarchy. Many of my friends feel the same way. I am 65 and worry about the future of my children and grandchildren. Working class Americans need to see what is going on and demand change.
This is a very important initiative for the sake of our shared future and democracy. However, unless the super rich themselves see the need to create a more balanced distribution of wealth it will be almost impossible to make progress, because they have the wealth to distort the system in perpetuity, until it crashes.
However one potential reform not mentioned is reform of corporate governance: see ‘Firm Commitment: Why the Corporation is Failing and How to Restore Trust in It’, by Prof Colin Mayer, which argues that corporations have been high-jacked by a few, bolstered by the false doctrine of shareholder value, and that this should be redressed through the creation of Public Interest Companies and other forms of mutual ownership. See video which sets out his diagnosis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljz_i0FgQtw or a longer talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yz3ERcXo1oo which includes more about his solutions.