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f) Renewed Emphasis on Fund Raising
Recent legislative and regulatory initiatives, such as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) proposals and rules, and proposed revised stock exchange listing requirements, have addressed weaknesses in corporate governance exposed by the major financial reporting issues raised by restatements and corporate failures, placing greater emphasis on the roles and responsibilities of boards of directors.
Two of the blurb writers have quite understandable grudges: Goldhagen has, for years, been railing against Browning's emphasis on peer pressure in explaining why German soldiers participated in genocide; in a New Republic review, he accused another endorser, Arno Mayer, of being a Holocaust revisionist.
The philosophical point here is that many people (we hope) would enjoy engaging in a vigorous discussion of something they have just read but have no special interest in joining an online "community," which is the usual emphasis of Web site bulletin boards.
The ideology of work in modern society puts great emphasis on independence, on treating oneself entrepreneurially--but if you treat yourself as an independent agent, you don't establish much emotional connection to other people.