This book offers an in-depth exploration of the international phenomenon of enlightened paternalist capitalism and social engineering in the golden age of capitalism in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, and France. Erik de Gier shows how utopian socialist, religious, and craft-based...

Upbringing, family, and education -- Reed college and time before pre-Apple (1972-1976) -- The first year -- Apple Computer Incorporated and growth -- Now truly wealthy -- Ouster from Apple -- Next was Next -- Pixar and Disney -- Saving Apple from bankruptcy -- Apple's reshaping for the modern...

The letters 1933 - 2006 -- 1930s: Berkeley and Harvard -- 1940s: war and price czar -- 1950s: liberal democrats and The affluent society -- 1960s: triumph and tragedy -- 1970s: the shooting star of American liberalism -- 1980s: the rise of American conservatism -- 1990s: political and economic...

Preface -- Purpose, policy, theory, definitions and context -- Designing, empowering and engaging the nonprofit to lessen the burden of government -- Empowering the nonprofit to lessen the burden of government -- Nonprofits as doers in reducing the burden of government -- Nonprofit as financiers...

Introduction : we the capitalists -- Incentives gone wild -- The return of ownership -- Not with my money -- The new geometry of regulation -- The queen's question -- People's pensions, commonsense banks -- Capitalism : a brief owner's manual

Why aren't companies getting better at breakthrough innovation? -- What we know about managing strategic innovation -- Innovators beware : talent management through neglect, misunderstanding, and punishment -- Innovation roles : a framework for designing the innovation function -- Discovery...

Monetary politics -- The blame game -- Creating the Federal Reserve -- Opening the act in the wake of the Depression -- Midcentury modern central banking -- The great inflation and the limits of independence -- The only game in town -- The myth of independence