CHAPTER 12 COMMUNITY: ENHANCING SOCIAL CAPITAL

As for those that have faith and do good works, God will bestow on them their rewards and enrich them from his own abundance.

—The Holy Koran, Surah Women at 4:173

… there is no truth more thoroughly established than that there exists in the economy and course of nature an indissoluble union between virtue and happiness; between duty and advantage; …

—G. Washington, April 30, 1789

TO ARGUE THAT COMMUNITY IS A STAKEHOLDER for a business is to reject out of hand the selfish temptations of brute capitalism. The Caux Round Table presumes that business lives within a civic order, not in a jungle where competition must be vicious, where its results may well prove to be “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, ...

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