References
- See www.forbes.com that in 1999 judged Stephan Schmidheiny to be among the 100 wealthiest people in the world. The figure of US$2 billion in 1985 is from Werner Catrina, Eternit: Stephan Schmidheinys Schweres Erbe (Eternit: Stephan Schmid-heiny's Difficult Inheritance), Orell—Fuessli, 1985.
- Dominik Flammer, Chiles Vergangenheit holt Schmidheiny em n [Chile's past catches up with Schmidheiny], Zuerich, Switzer-land: Weltwoche, February 18, 1999; also Ulrich Achermann, Schmidheiny & Co: Indios Setzen Waelder in Brand [Schmid-heiny & Co., Indians set fire to forests], Weltwoche, February 25, 1999, from www.weltwoche.ch. A more sympathetic view of Schmidheiny is available from Werner Catrina, Stephan Schmidheinys Ferne Waelder [Stephan Schmidheiny's Dis-tant Forests], Zuerich, Switzerland: Tages-Anzeiger, Jan. 23, 1997, www.tages-anzeig-ench/archiv/. Werner Catrina is the author of the non-confrontational yet fasci-nating book Eternit: Stephan Schmidheinys Schweres Erbe [Eternit: Stephan Schmid-heiny's Difficult Inheritance], Orell—Fuessli, 1985. For a sketch of health condi-tions and practices inside the Osasco plant in 1983, see writings by Daniel M. Berman in Portuguese, English, and French versions: Asbestos (amianto) no Brasil: Ameaça a Saude dos Trabalhadores e da Popalcao, in Trabalho E Saude, Departamento Inter-sindical de Estudos e Pesquisas de Satide (DIESAT), July/August 1985, cover article; Asbestos and health in the Third World: the case of Brasil, International Journal of Health Services, 2nd quarter, 1986; Ami-ante et Sante dans le Tiers Monde, le cas du Bresil, chapter 5 from L'Envers Des Sociétés Industrielles: Approche Comparative Franco-Brésilienne, Dr. Annie Thebaud-Mony (ed), Paris, France: Editions l'Harmattan, 1990.
- Stephan Schmidheiny, Missing the boat on foreign aid. World Resources Institute, WRI Perspectives, February 2000, http:www.writorgi.
- See Adrian Knoepfli's articles: Beschaeftigte al Manoevriermasse, Von Schmidheiny ueber Electorwatt zu Siemens, SMUV-Zeitung No. 9, February 26, 1997; Die Karten wurden neu verteilt, SKA, SBG, Elektrowatt, Schmidheiny, Winterthur, Rueck, Daz, December 22, 1995; and Ein neues Buch Ueber de Schmidheinys, Stephan, Thomas, Jacob: Wer ist wer? Daz, December 30, 1994.
- From MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
- For an understanding of the role of Schmid-heiny and the BCSD see Pratap Chatterjee and Matthas Finger's brilliant but little-known book The Earth Brokers: Power, Pol-itics, and Development, London and New York: Routledge, 1994.
- See Thorstein Veblen, The Theory of the Leisure Class, New York: MacMillan, 1899, chapter 14, The higher learning as an expression of the pecuniary culture, for a ponderously amusing discussion of the uni-versity's uses to business.