Marjorie Kelly

Marjorie Kelly is a modern revolutionary who wants to democratize economics. She argues that our current economic system is an aristocracy run by corporations that pay shareholders as much as possible and employees as little as possible-while ignoring the public good. CEOs aren't all bad guys, Kelly says, they're just operating in a system that forces them to put profits above everything else. Kelly isn't a dreamy-eyed idealist. She is the co-founder and editor of Business Ethics, a leading publication on socially responsible business, and a Missouri-born, third-generation entrepreneur (her grandfather started Anderson Tool & Die in his basement during the Depression). David Korten, author of When Corporations Rule the World, calls Kelly "our Thomas Paine for the new millennium.