Virginia Postrel, Columnist

Amazon Has a Chance to Redefine Corporate Responsibility

Its headquarters search should resist handouts and challenge cities to create better environments for all workers.

October 17, 2017 at 4:07 PM UTC

Virginia Postrel is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist. She is a visiting fellow at the Smith Institute for Political Economy and Philosophy at Chapman University and author, most recently, of “The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World.”

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