Greater Good: How Good Marketing Makes for Better Democracy

Marketing has a greater purpose, and marketers, a higher calling, than simply selling more widgets, according to John Quelch and Katherine Jocz.

In Greater Good, the authors contend that marketing performs an essential societal function--and does so democratically. They maintain that people would benefit if the realms of politics and marketing were informed by one another's best principles and practices.

Quelch and Jocz lay out the six fundamental characteristics that marketing and democracy ...