Conscious Capitalism: Whole Foods Founder John Mackey Book Tour
Submitted by Michael Nystrom on Wed, 02/06/2013 - 18:49in
Don't know much about the book yet, but I saw the video of Mackey here on the DP a while ago. He's going to be at the Whole Foods on River Street in Cambridge tomorrow. I'll be there and let you know how it goes.
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As it turns out,
I was misinformed. I thought there was going to be a talk; it was just a book signing. He gave a talk to employees earlier.
He's supposed to be speaking at Babson College at 4 today, but that a little far for me. Considering the storm, and considering you can watch this talk he gave at Stanford Business School at your leisure:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZuhXhnlHxg
I decided to opt for getting prepped for the storm.
It's pretty good worth the
It's pretty good worth the read. At the very least, it supports John who is a libertarian.
I'm glad to see it branded at all whole foods. Maybe it will make some dems up.
He makes a great case for capitalism and talks about Mises and Hayek
eagerly awaiting a review
I keep seeing this book at Whole Foods and keep meaning to buy it, but I realize I can get is cheaper on Amazon and don't buy it :)
“With laws shall our land be built up, but with lawlessness laid waste.”
-Njal Thorgeirsson
I did the same thing for a while
It is 25% off at Whole Foods - $18.99. $17.38 on Amazon
Had to pay sales tax at the grocery store, but at least I got it so I could start reading it. I've only gotten through the preface so far.
Mackey was a liberal hippy, thought business was greedy and bad, and profits were evil... until he started running his own business. Then he got a new perspective on things! Soon he learned that as a business, he's able to provide jobs for others, these amazing products for people, not to mention the platform that he's got to spread his message.
Really looking forward to the talk - to hearing what else he has to say, and learning from his experience, and what it can teach me in terms of running the Daily Paul.
Thanks Michael
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Mackey is a liberal who was made into a libertarian by the government--that's my take. So, he probably didn't study economics in school, but learned it on the job. He's a retailer, and retailers need to be socially tolerant or they lose customers.
I saw a notice at one of his stores calling for support of mandates on food labeling; don't know if it was official. Mandates and licenses for labeling is, of course, a violation of the right to free speech.
He's not "pure," but we're working on him.
He's got the best health insurance plan you can have, given the current regulatory situation--I wish I had it.
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