Professors Says Occupy Wall Street Movement Is Cry for New Business Ethics

A Virginia business professor says that the Occupy Wall Street protests are a symbol of a new agenda for an ethics-focused generation.

Fernando Pargas, in his new book “Stopping Big Business and Politics from Bleeding America: An Agenda for a New Generation,” says that today’s college students "are aware that they will soon be the managers of both our corporations and our politics. And they are worried about what part ethics will play.”

A management professor at James Madison University in Virginia, he describes the issues that they should be concerned about in his book, released in a Kindle edition on November 11, (http://www.amazon.com/Stopping-Business-Politics-Bleeding-ebook/dp/B0064X5JHG/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1321562390&sr=1-1) and later in November in paperback by Beckham Publications Group, the multicultural and cutting-edge house in Silver Spring, MD. (http://beckhamhouse.com)

Pargas declares that educators must stop pretending that there isn’t a corrupt alliance of business and politics. Commenting on the occupy movements worldwide, he says: “We must teach our students how to run organizations that are free at last from the stench of deceit and greed.”

The money of the one and the power of the other make for an unstoppable force, he argues. Supporting that force, maintains Pargas, is their propaganda machine which forces an uninformed and malleable public to follow them in what he calls “hypnotic obedience.”

The author-professor is a former executive for Time Warner, Inc. and was a member of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce International Council in Washington. D.C. His chapter topics include the business of war, the oil monarchy, and the influence of lobbying.

A sample chapter is available online at www.stoppingbigbusiness.com/ .

The Pargas media kit including his biography, audio and video segments is downloadable at http://tinyurl.com/cnk4mzt .

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