Building Whole Foods Market through Conscious Capitalism with John Mackey

On the second episode of the Emergent Order podcast, John Papola interviews entrepreneur, author, and Whole Foods CEO, John Mackey. Papola and Mackey discuss the evolution of Whole Foods Market, from its humble beginnings in Austin, TX to its current role in the Amazon corporate ecosystem.  This episode also includes an in-depth discussion of Mackey’s conscious capitalism movement and what it really means to be a “good” capitalist. The two Johns also discuss the making of the film At The Fork, a collaboration between Whole Foods Market and Emergent Order. More from our guest: His Blog on Whole Foods Market's Website The Conscious Capitalism Website References from this episode: Conscious Capitalism by John Mackey The Whole Foods Diet by John Mackey Free to Choose by Milton & Rose Friedman The Bourgeois Virtues: Ethics for an Age of Commerce by Dierdre McCloskey Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can't Explain the Modern World by Dierdre McCloskey Bourgeois Equality: How Ideas, Not Capital or Institutions, Enriched the World by Dierdre McCloskey The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure by Jonathan Haidt & Greg Lukianoff The Man in the High Castle on Amazon Prime Video