Praise for Greed, Inc.:
"...insightful and helpful"
Globe and Mail
"...intriguing"
Maclean's
"Rowland sheds light on the growth -- and the menace -- of the profit-driven modern large corporation"
Winnipeg Free Press
"freshness of quality journalism and the confidence of careful reflection...Rowland here combines broad research, impressive intellectuality and...enviable clarity"
National Post
"...intruiging... Rowland has an interesting perspective, a smooth, thoughtful writing style and smarts"
Chris DeVito, CD
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"a wise book by a thinker and writer of great good sense and clarity"
Ronald Wright, author of A Short History of Progress
"a thoroughly readable historical look at the roots of the modern corporation"
Quill and Quire
Praise for Galileo's Mistake:
"...fresh and compelling."
Vancouver Sun
"Well-presented scientific history with an interesting philosophical twist"
Kirkus Reviews
"Rowland's is an audacious position"
The New York Times
"Rowland's triumph is in examining Galileo's method over his facts and winning an argument that was lost more than 350 years ago. His book provides a fascinating contribution to a debate that is particularly germane today and is likely to be equally important 300 years from now."
Montreal Gazette
"I recommend it strongly. Rowland tells the story well and with style and...backed by serious research and sensitivity to the issues. The history is embedded in a modern-day travelogue, interspersed with musings about the meaning of life."
The Globe and Mail
"Rowland does an impressive job of bringing the 17th century to life...he builds a compelling case that Galileo and the Church differed over something far more important than whether the earth revolved around the sun-they differed on the very nature of truth and how mortals can come to know it."
Publishers Weekly
"An excellent mixture of science and philosophy."
David Pitt, Bookloons
"Galileo's Mistake is a lofty and ambitious philosophical exploration, and
Rowland's considerable gifts as a writer make the book pleasurable and
captivating. Rowland skilfully weaves history, biography, science writing, and
philosophical overviews into the comfortable familiarity of a travel narrative."
"Galileo's Mistake has the lazy ease of a multi-course Italian
dinner, at once relaxing and enriching".
Robert Wiersema, Quill & Quire
"...a superb work...an ambitious, even heroic, interpretation of the Galileo-Church controversy. Rowland has included a wonderfully accurate, exquisitely painted presentation of the political, cultural, and historical setting in which the Galileo-Church debate finds a clearly natural location."
B. J. Hodgson, PhD, Trent University Faculty of Philosophy
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Greed, Inc.: Why Corporations Rule Our World and How We Let It Happen
by Wade Rowland
The following review appeared in Maclean's magazine
in June 2005
Greed Inc.
June 20, 2005
Maclean's
Corporations aren't really psychopaths, as some critics claim, argues Wade Rowland in Creed, Inc. They're more like alien beings, specifically artificial life forms.
Corporations meet the standard criteria for life according to AL theory: life is more a series of dynamic relationships than a physical being (check; life reproduces itself (ditto); life evolves under environmental pressure (yep); life grows and expands (oh, yeah).
Rowland, a university lecturer in the social history of communications technologies, thinks the AL analogy superior to the psychopathology comparison because it better explains why corporations often do not appear to be run by real people, "since they so consistently act in contradiction of human interests."
That's one of the intriguing angles from which Rowland looks at them. More disturbingly, he also concludes that corporate employees who perform unethical acts for business reasons cannot, in the end, hold to their own ethical cores.
Greed, Inc.: Why Corporations Rule Our World and How We Let It Happen
by Wade Rowland
Title: Greed Inc.
Subtitle: Why Corporations Rule Our World and How We Let It Happen
Author: Wade Rowland
Category: Business/Current Affairs/Philosophy
Publication Date:April 2005
ISBN: 0887621767
Hardcover: 240 pages
Dimensions:240 Pages, 6.38 x 9.38 x 0.88 in
Publisher: Thomas Allen Publishers
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