The idea of stakeholder capitalism, that the interests of all major stakeholders (i.e. investors and workers) should be treated equally in corporations, has been implied as the way of the future in this recent blog post from the editors of the Harvard Business Review, and I think this idea is absolutely right. Movement in this general direction is not just coming up as a response to the recession—though you could say our recessionary times have made us aware of the growing importance of stakeholder capitalism in the first place. [...]

