Drucker discusses economic life in terms of values, integrity, character, knowledge, vision, responsibility, self-control, social integration, teamwork, community, competence, social responsibility, the quality of life, self-fulfillment, leadership, duty, purpose, dignity, meaning -- but rarely money. He defends profit, but as if it were broccoli: a distasteful obligation of managers who would rather be reading Kierkegaard. Jack Beatty, from The World According to Peter Drucker (The Free Press, 1998) Previous passage | Next passage Back to "The Author of Modernity" in Atlantic Unbound Copyright © 1998 by Jack Beatty. Published by The Free Press, a division of Simon & Schuster Inc.