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Podcast: New Books in Business, Management, and Marketing
Episode: Morris Altman, "Worker Satisfaction and Economic Performance" (Routledge, 2021)
Description: Today I talked to Morris Altman about his book Worker Satisfaction and Economic Performance (Routledge, 2021).What sometimes gets overlooked is that Adam Smith not only became the “father of capitalism” by writing The Wealth of Nations; he also wrote The Theory of Moral Sentiments. Empathy matters, and this week’s guest Morris Altman argues that sustainable capitalism practices fairness. Too often the basic, economic needs of rank-and-file workers are being overlooked in a global economic where the wealthy are calling the shots. From anti-immigrant rhetoric to events in Ukraine, this is a timely episode that puts the purported...