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American Business and Social Challenges of the Eighties

The last two decades were indeed quite turbulent in the evolving relationship between business, especially the large corporations, and society. It would be presumptuous for someone who has lived through this period, and is so close to it, to declare that a lesson has been learned or to add up the gains and the losses from the experience. For this, we must await the objective judgement of history. Instant history, however, has its uses. For neither now nor in the future can we ignore the recent past. It provides us with a point of departure from which we can measure progress or det1ection therefrom. We are encumbered by it in our perceptual biases about the behaviour and motives of the people and institutions with which we must deal; and most important, it influences the goals we wish to achieve and the means we would like to employ. History repeats itself, precisely because we have short memories. We are all captives of our imaginations, which are constrained to a large extent by our living environment.