Big Challenges for Big Business: Public Mistrust of Big Business and Global Markets

IGM, Global Market Series, number 1

This report is the first of the Global Market Series, which will focus on timely subjects in international business, financial markets, and public policy. Reports in this series will combine insights from scholarly research with other valuable ideas and analysis from other sources. The Initiative on Global Markets, at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, has launched these reports in an effort to make sound insights and analysis accessible to a wide public audience on areas of broad concern.

Big challenges for big business: The large corporations that connect much of the global economy are facing more than just a steep recession. They are also unpopular and under attack—especially in America, where public trust in its brand of capitalism has been battered and anti-business populism has risen. How will this shape the response to the crisis?

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