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This Thursday, November 15th, is Give to the Max Day here in Minnesota, where the Caux Round Table for Moral Capitalism (CRT) is based, and I write to ask for your support.

We are very efficient in punching globally way above our weight for a small, non-profit and as proof, in 2018, we:

-Held our 2018 Global Dialogue at St. Petersburg University’s Graduate School of Management in St. Petersburg, Russia on the current growing tension between humanism and tribalism.

-Convened a workshop in Kyoto, Japan on mutuality in ethics between Japanese and Chinese moral traditions, integrating the insights of two great East Asian peoples for collaboration in support of global sustainability.

-Cosponsored a workshop in Beijing on the jurisprudence of an ancient Chinese statesman, MoZi, and on the contemporary usefulness of the ancient Chinese text, the Yi Jing as guideposts for the constructive integration of the official Chinese approach to government and markets with global standards.

-Initiated organization of a 2019 workshop at the Vatican on the Covenants of the Prophet Muhammad with Christian communities as appropriate contemporary social teachings on respect and collaboration between Christians and Muslims for the common good of humankind.

-Cosponsored a conference in Bangkok on Buddhism and sustainability.

-Commissioned a unique, pioneering study of enterprise valuation methodology with Oxford Analytica.

-Initiated a new CRT book series with the publication on Amazon Kindle of collected essays on ethics.

– Convened two public office/public trust workshops for political candidates and elected officials on the CRT’s Principles for Government.

-Held the 10th annual Celebration of John Brandl & His Uncommon Quest for Common Ground in partnership with several local policy organizations.

-Held several round table discussions on relevant and timely topics.

-Published 12 monthly issues of our newsletter Pegasus.

We need your help now to continue this work and more importantly, to expand it. With your help, we can reach out to more countries, convene more workshops of thought-leaders, publish more books, train more people, create more unique management guidelines and metrics for sustainability, help implement the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals and showcase practical steps towards robust outcomes advancing the common good.

Anything you can give would be most appreciated.

You can contribute here.

To help the Caux Round Table for Moral Capitalism advocate its Principles for Business, publications are a basic tool for the dissemination of our ideas and practical ways to implement them.

We have been fortunate to have published Moral Capitalism (2004) and The Road to Moral Capitalism (2014). We have now published our monthly newsletter Pegasus for 7 1/2 years.

This week, we are delighted to announce a new publishing format: e-book and print-on-demand on Amazon.

We find that there are many important and thoughtful contributions to new ways of thinking about capitalism which fit neither academic publishers or peer-reviewed journals, nor commercial houses. Thus, we want to fill a void with our own use of new technology of digital and print-on-demand and bring to public consideration worthy ideas and recommendations.

We have just posted on Amazon for downloading on Kindle an e-book: Ethics – Collected Works.

You may purchase the book here.

If you purchase the book and enjoy it, I would be very grateful if you left a review on Amazon. Reviews really do help give the book better visibility for those searching on Amazon for books on these subjects.

I am grateful for the assistance of my colleagues Erik Sande and Patrick Rhone in making the essays included in this book available to the global public.

Please forward this email to those whom you think might want to consider reading these essays on moral capitalism.

We have two additional collections of essays we will be publishing in the coming months.

In addition, we now want to reach out and provide publication for commentaries, essays and manuscripts which fall between the stools of academic presses and journals and commercial houses. Please get in touch with me if you have thoughts and comments you would like us to consider for publication under our brand.

Our Wittenberg Statement reflects the concerns of participants at our 2017 Global Dialogue held last November in Wittenberg, Germany.

Observations of fundamental importance deserve to be memorialized in a statement. The 500th anniversary of an event in Wittenberg which, under the influence of dynamic circumstances, triggered the Protestant Reformation, was an occasion to reflect on the emergence of modern civilization with its structures of science, industrial production, private finance, nation states and international law and ideals of constitutional rule and human rights.

But, as participants noted in the Statement, the emergence of a social, economic or political system does not make it wise, just or perfect. Systems have advantages, to be sure; they meet needs and provide goods and services. But they have limitations and short-comings which only new human endeavors can correct or remediate.

Nonetheless, as reforms and innovations are advocated and adopted, there are still timeless aspects to our endeavors which seem beyond the reach of intentional modification. Reflection on Martin Luther after 500 years helps us spot what is lasting and what is only interim.

The morality of our contemporary capitalism stands on both timeless needs of human nature and incremental, short-term improvements to our structures for creating wealth and distributing it.

The Statement hopefully will serve to define a greater common understanding of what is fundamental and what needs to be addressed in our time through our ideals and efforts.

Download the full statement.