Forty years of business reporting have led Alan Murray to some pretty optimistic claims about capitalism in the United States. Drawing mostly on interviews with CEOs, the books that CEOs and business school professors write about CEOs, and CEO speeches, Murray feels confident that “capitalism has proven itself the best system mankind has conceived to organize human activity, to create prosperity, and to eliminate poverty,” and that we are entering a new era of stakeholder capitalism in which CEOs are combining a zeal for profits with a zest for solving our epoch’s great challenges: climate change, police brutality, public health emergencies — you name it, the CEOs are on it!
