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