A neoconservative critique of corporate America, whose impact is
blunted by the author's insistence on documenting his personal
sense of betrayal and outrage. Following a stint at Fortune, Weaver
accepted a job in Ford's PR department. Once on board (during the
last two years of the Carter Administration), he discovered there
was no demand for his zeal to issue ringing defenses of capitalism
in general and auto-making in particular. To his professed horror,
in fact, the author found Dearborn a hotbed of expedience,
prevarication, inertia, corporatism, and other high crimes
involving accommodations with government. (In relating his tour of
duty, the sometime journalist sounds about as savvy as an ardent
swain who's the last to learn his true love has been a lifelong
hooker.) So, back with the magazine after a two-year sojourn in
Motown, a sadder but wiser Weaver began rethinking his position on
commerce and industry - his field research had confirmed his worst
suspicions, i.e., that big business tends to play it safe, avoiding
even calculated risks. Few if any large companies practice the
free-enterprise principles top executives preach, and most prefer
to lobby for public policies (like import restrictions and
investment tax credits) that promote private interests rather than
take their chances in an increasingly competitive marketplace. In
many respects, Weaver's bill of particulars is right on the money,
and he offers a wealth of uncommonly sensible suggestions as to how
US business might kick its entitlement habit. But, unfortunately,
he presents his conclusions on surviving and thriving in a brave
new world marked by transnational rivalries with all the charm of a
common scold. Better-balanced, wider-ranging, and less subjective
commentaries on the socioeconomic status quo are available; one
excellent alternative would be last year's The Bigness Complex, by
Walter Adams and James Brock. (Kirkus Reviews)
From Simon & Schuster, Suicidal Corporation is Paul H. Weaver's
analysis of how Big Business fails the United States of America.
The Suicidal Corporation: How Big Business Fails America argues
that big business has created most of its current economic problems
and supported harmful government policies, and suggests massive
corporate reform.
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