Combining commercial success with philanthropy and social activism, 'Quakernomics' offers a compelling model for corporate social responsibility in the modern world.
Mike King has worked on the most complex B2C Commerce customer implementations, including multiple brands and geographies worldwide. Mike is also a certified Salesforce instructor, teaching the B2C Technical Architect certification preparation course. In January 2019, Mike participated in the inaugural Salesforce cross-cloud academy. He has since worked with Salesforce on the B2C Solution Architect exam development team and in real-world B2C solution architecture implementations. Mike has also presented numerous times with Salesforce on the topic of B2C solution architecture, including at TrailheaDX and Dreamforce. When not obsessing about Salesforce, commerce, and software architecture, Mike enjoys hiking, camping, and woodworking.
Foreword by Sir Adrian Cadbury; Acknowledgements; Introduction; PART I: BACKGROUND; Chapter 1: Quakers and Commerce; Chapter 2: Industrial Capitalism; Chapter 3: Contrasting Cultures in 1845; PART II: THE QUAKER ENTERPRISES; Chapter 4: The Darbys of Coalbrookdale; Chapter 5: Quakers in Light and Heavy Industry; Chapter 6: Quakers in Science, Chemicals and Pharmaceuticals; Chapter 7: Quakers in Foodstuffs and Luxuries; Chapter 8: Quakers in Trading, Banking and Finance; Chapter 9: Quakers in Culture; Chapter 10: The Quaker System; ILLUSTRATIONS: QUAKER TRACES IN LONDON; PART III: QUAKERS, SOCIETY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE; Chapter 11: Quakers in Public Life; Chapter 12: Industrial Welfare and Quaker Lapses; Chapter 13: Quakers and Other Ethical Capitalists; PART IV: INDUSTRIAL ETHICS AND ECONOMIC THOUGHT; Chapter 14: From Mercantilism to Marshall; Chapter 15: Karl Marx; Chapter 16: George, Veblen and Schumpeter; Chapter 17: The Austrian School; Chapter 18: Keynes, Tawny and Galbraith; Chapter 19: Economics in Fiction; Chapter 20: Ayn Rand; Chapter 21: Milton Friedman; Chapter 22: Quakernomics and the Credit Crunch; Chapter 23: Quakernomics and Economic History; PART V: CONCLUSIONS; Chapter 24: Ethical Capitalism; Notes; Index