10:39 AM
August 24, 09

Heard JOHN MACKEY on C-Span during
the early morning. BE THE SOLUTION
is his book.

He is the co-founder of WHOLE FOODS MARKET.

he was speaking at a libertarian Conference
called FREEDOM FEST.

I want to look up what he was talking about.
I felt kinship with the kind of
economics he was suggesting.

Mackey called it CONSCIOUS CAPITALISM.

Years ago, I called something like this,
CONSCIOUS COMMERCE:
With each dollar spend in the marketplace
we can uplift each other. Life in circulation.

Still looking...
Found this....
WHOLE FOODS MODEL
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204251404574342170072865070.html


THIS IS A TALK BY MACKEY
GIVING at FREEDOM FEST.
It does not appear to be free
http://www.theadvocates.org/celebrities/john-mackey.html

Here's what Mark Skousen says about John Makey:

"His company has established a set of core values, a concept of business that emphasizes social value and voluntary cooperation. Business should be 'a community working together to create value for others.' Whole Foods emphasizes customer service, quality, empowerment of all its employees, cultivation of small local vendors. His management philosophy focuses on self-managing teams. There's a climate of trust and open information. For instance, everyone knows everyone's compensation. Employee participation is encouraged; employees vote on what benefits they receive. In business, 'profit is created through voluntary exchange, not exploitation.' Capitalism is the solution to poverty. Taxes are too high. He denounced socialism, Marxism, and nationalized health care, noting that a medical savings account system (Whole Foods has one), not a single payer system, is the real solution to the health crisis. John Mackey is a brilliant entrepreneur and thinker, a social advocate who is making inroads into the American culture in a way no other libertarian has ever done."


 

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