Lee Drutman is the communications director of Citizen Works; and Charlie Cray is the director of the Center for Corporate Policy. They are co-authors of The People’s Business: Controlling Corporations and Restoring Democracy (Berrett-Koehler), from which this essay was adapted.

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The People’s Business
Controlling corporations and restoring democracy
Lee Drutman and Charlie Cray
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