Our world is facing a questioning of values.
From questioning capitalism and democracy, to a growth of acceptance of autocracy, we are in a period of challenge to the theories which have developed our world.
We seek clarity of thought and a pathway for a moral future.
Steve Young’s book, Moral Capitalism, has been translated into Russian by Professor Yury Blagov of the Graduate School of Management, St. Petersburg University.
His book responds to an international need at the moment of greatest challenge, not simply in Russia, but across the world.
Reflecting the Caux Round Table’s Principles for Business, it becomes a blueprint for Russia and the world of a capitalism which, when properly structured, remains the only system capable of reducing global poverty and tyranny and addressing the hopes and needs of transforming geopolitics and economics.
We have witnessed how capitalism was misunderstood and misused into becoming “brute capitalism.”
We now witness how societies and nations are fragmenting, rather than focusing upon the common issues which unite humanity.
We have the opportunity to build a new moral capitalism which reflects the required social change, progress and economic stability which our world seeks.
We have the opportunity, with the ideas presented by Steve Young.
We must take advantage of this opportunity in the current divided world.
The Caux Round Table can lead the discussion and implementation of this renewal. I hope you will provide leadership for that discussion.