Business Government and Society- India
BUSINESS, GOVERNMENT & STUDIES – HANDOUT SUMMARIES
On 1 August 2009
Contributors:
Saurabh Verma
Amartya Singh
Sadanand Subray Kamat
Ashis Nayak
Jagadeesh R
Om Prakash H
Mayank
Rohit Jaiswal
Bhawna Jain
Alok Jain
Humbad Abhishek Nirmal
D Dineshkumar
Shikha Rawat
Rangineni Srikanth
Hemant Agarwal
Ravi M V
R Umesh
Ram Sevak
Sandeep S Nair
A V Naga Chaitanya
Chayan Mukhopadhyay
Anuprakash
Kapil Makhija
Rajeev Kumar
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Contents
Introduction 4
Overview 4
A New Era for Business 4
How to Manage government and Influence Politics 5
The Corporation 6
The Social Responsibility of Business is to Increase its Profits 6
The Corporation’s Rise to Dominance 7
The Biggest Contract 10
Merck Case A 12
Role of Government 12
The Public Sector in a Mixed Economy 12
Excerpts from Capitalism and Freedom 14
Parkinson’s Law 15
Regulation 15
The End 15
The Looting of America’s Coffers 17
Unintended Consequences 17
CUTS 18
Interest Groups 19
The Logic 19
Sharing the Spoils; group equity, development and democracy 21
Social Movements in Crisis 22
Social Capital 26
The Prosperous Community 26
The Market and the Polis 27
Introduction in ethnic conflicts and civic life 29
Media 30
News Media & Nonmarket Issues 30
A Propaganda Model 36
Media and Governance 39
Caste matters in the Indian media 42
Sense Making by the Public 42
Equity, Symbols, Numbers, Rights 42
Environment 46
Environmentalism: Ideology, Action, and Movements 46
The Truth about the Environment 46
A Global Marshall Plan 47
Green and Competitive: Ending the Stalemate 47
Business Strategies for Climate Change 48
Not clear:
Interest Groups, page-20
Social Movements in Crisis, page 23
Start with: Social Capital page-27
Introduction
This document is a compilation of the BGS Summaries painstakingly put together by a handful of students of the PGP 2009-2011 Section E. Hope this is enlightening to
On 1 August 2009
Contributors:
Saurabh Verma
Amartya Singh
Sadanand Subray Kamat
Ashis Nayak
Jagadeesh R
Om Prakash H
Mayank
Rohit Jaiswal
Bhawna Jain
Alok Jain
Humbad Abhishek Nirmal
D Dineshkumar
Shikha Rawat
Rangineni Srikanth
Hemant Agarwal
Ravi M V
R Umesh
Ram Sevak
Sandeep S Nair
A V Naga Chaitanya
Chayan Mukhopadhyay
Anuprakash
Kapil Makhija
Rajeev Kumar
[pic]
Contents
Introduction 4
Overview 4
A New Era for Business 4
How to Manage government and Influence Politics 5
The Corporation 6
The Social Responsibility of Business is to Increase its Profits 6
The Corporation’s Rise to Dominance 7
The Biggest Contract 10
Merck Case A 12
Role of Government 12
The Public Sector in a Mixed Economy 12
Excerpts from Capitalism and Freedom 14
Parkinson’s Law 15
Regulation 15
The End 15
The Looting of America’s Coffers 17
Unintended Consequences 17
CUTS 18
Interest Groups 19
The Logic 19
Sharing the Spoils; group equity, development and democracy 21
Social Movements in Crisis 22
Social Capital 26
The Prosperous Community 26
The Market and the Polis 27
Introduction in ethnic conflicts and civic life 29
Media 30
News Media & Nonmarket Issues 30
A Propaganda Model 36
Media and Governance 39
Caste matters in the Indian media 42
Sense Making by the Public 42
Equity, Symbols, Numbers, Rights 42
Environment 46
Environmentalism: Ideology, Action, and Movements 46
The Truth about the Environment 46
A Global Marshall Plan 47
Green and Competitive: Ending the Stalemate 47
Business Strategies for Climate Change 48
Not clear:
Interest Groups, page-20
Social Movements in Crisis, page 23
Start with: Social Capital page-27
Introduction
This document is a compilation of the BGS Summaries painstakingly put together by a handful of students of the PGP 2009-2011 Section E. Hope this is enlightening to