Moral Capitalism: Reconciling Private Interest with the Public Good
Stephen Young is the Global Executive Director of the Caux Round Table, a network of senior business leaders around the world dedicated to corporate responsibility. The Caux Round Table is creator one of the most well-developed and widely publicized codes of corporate ethics.Young has worked extensively in foreign relations. He has worked with the Council on Foreign Relations and consulted for the United States Department of State. He discovered the Bronze Age civilization of Ban Chiang Thailand, now a UNESCO World Heritage Site; and he opened America to the refugees from the Vietnam War in 1975. He successfully suggested to Hanoi and the Bush, Sr. Administration in Washington to support his proposal for a United Nations Interim Administration of Cambodia. He was Honorary Consul-General of Singapore from 1990 to 1996.Young's 's law career is equally broad-based. He brought reform to the Harvard Law School as Assistant Dean for Student Affairs, and he championed an innovative law-school curriculum as Dean of the Hamline Law School. As an attorney, he sought to prevent diversion of $425 million of public proceeds of the tobacco settlement in Minnesota from the state’s treasury into private pockets. He challenged in Federal Court under the First Amendment’s separation of church and state the use of a radical religious approach to the environment in management of public lands.Young has written commentary for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Pioneer Press, and The StarTribune. He has provided commentary on foreign affairs for television stations. His web commentary is available at Fifthcolumnmag.com.