home about IMTM gathering social mission opportunities contact The following sources provide guidance to the multiple and complex areas related to social mission media. They provide important insight into the theory and practice of corporate governance and responsibility, socially responsible ownership and investing, business ethics, media and culture, values in public life, and communications policy. BOOKS Roger Backhouse, The Ordinary Business of Life: A History of Economics from the Ancient World to the Twenty-First Century (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2002) Ben H. Bagdikian, The Media Monopoly, 6th Edition (Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 2000) Margaret M. Blair, Ownership and Control: Rethinking Corporate Governance for the Twentieth Century (Washington, D.C.: The Brookings Institution, 1995) John C. Bogle, Character Counts: The Creation and Building of the Vanguard Group (New York: McGraw-Hill Trade Press, 2002) David Bollier, Aiming Higher: 25 Stories of How Companies Prosper by Combining Sound Management and Social Vision (New York: American Management Association, 1996) Joel Brinkley, Defining Vision: The Battle for the Future of Television (New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1997) Tom Chappell, The Soul of a Business: Managing for Profit and the Common Good (New York: Bantam Books, 1993) Alisa Clapp-Itnyre, The Right to Tell: The Role of Mass Media in Economic Development, WBI Development Studies (Washington, D.C.: World Bank, 2002) Amitai Etzioni, The Moral Dimension: Toward a New Economics (New York: The Free Press, 1988) Jack Fuller, News Values: Ideas for an Information Age (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1996) Howard Gardner, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, and William Damon, Good Work: When Excellence and Ethics Meet (New York: Basic Books, 2001) Jeffrey E. Garten, The Politics of Fortune: A New Agenda for Business Leaders (Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press, 2002) Murray Gell-Mann, The Quark and the Jaguar: Adventures in the Simple and the Complex, Reprint Edition (W.H. Freeman & Co., 1995) Lawrence K. Grossman and Newton N. Minow, Digital Gift to the Nation: Fulfilling the Promise of the Digital and Internet Age (New York: Century Foundation Press, 2001) James P. Hawley and Andrew T. Williams, The Rise of Fiduciary Capitalism: How Institutional Investors Can Make Corporate America More Democratic (Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000) Ellen Hume, Tabloids, Talk Radio, and the Future of the News (Washington, D.C.: The Annenberg Washington Program in Communications Policy Studies of Northwestern University, 1995) Peter Kinder, Steven Lydenberg, and Amy Domini, eds., The Social Investment Almanac: A Comprehensive Guide to Socially Responsible Investing (New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1992) Lawrence Lessig, The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World (New York: Random House, 2001) Arthur Levitt, Taking on the Street: What Wall Street and Corporate America Don't Want You to Know (New York: Pantheon Books, 2002) Michael Mandelbaum, The Ideas That Conquered the World: Peace, Democracy, and Free Markets in the Twenty-First Century (New York: Perseus Group/PublicAffairs, 2002) M. Donald Meeks, God the Economist: The Doctrine of God and Political Economy (Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 1989) Margaret R. Miles, Seeing and Believing: Religion and Values in the Movies (Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 1996) Martha Minow, Partners, Not Rivals: Privatization and the Public Good (Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 2002) Robert A.G. Monks, The New Global Investors: How Shareowners Can Unlock Sustainable Prosperity Worldwide (Indianapolis, IN: Wiley-Capstone Publishing, 2001) Robert A.G. Monks and Nell Minow, Watching the Watchers: Corporate Governance for the 21st Century (Cambridge, MA and Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishers, 1996) Jerry Z. Muller, Adam Smith: In His Time and Ours — Designing the Decent Society (New York: The Free Press, 1993) Jay Newman, Religion vs. Television: Competitors in Cultural Context (Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group, Praeger Publishers, 1996) Ithiel de Sola Pool, Technologies Without Boundaries: On Telecommunications in a Global Age, Eli M. Noam, ed. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1990) John Rawls, Justice as Fairness: A Restatement, Erin Kelly, ed. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2001) William D. Romanowski, Pop Culture Wars: Religion and the Role of Entertainment in American Life (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1996) Peter Singer, One World: The Ethics of Globalization (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2002) Max L. Stackhouse, Dennis P. McCann, Shirley J. Roels, and Preston N. Williams, eds., On Moral Business: Classical and Contemporary Resources for Ethics in Economic Life (Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1995) Steven D. Stark, Glued to the Set: The 60 Television Shows and Events That Made Us Who We Are Today (New York: The Free Press, 1997) Grant Tinker and Bud Rukeyser, Tinker in Television: From General Sarnoff to General Electric (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994) Peter Walkenhorst, ed., Building Philanthropic and Social Capital: The Work of Community Foundations (New York: Bertelsmann Stiftung, 2002) Frank Walsh, Sin and Censorship: The Catholic Church and the Motion Picture Industry (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1996) Jack W. Weatherford, The History of Money: From Sandstone to Cyberspace (New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1997) Robert Wuthnow, Poor Richard's Principle: Recovering the American Dream Through the Moral Dimension of Work, Business and Money (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1996) Paul N. Ylvisaker, Conscience and Community: The Legacy of Paul Ylvisaker, Virginia M. Esposito, ed., American University Studies. 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