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The Corporation

Joel Bakan

Are corporate scandals the work of a few bad apples, or is the corporation itself a pathological institution?

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Author
Joel Bakan

Why read it

  • You will understand how the corporation as an institution, not just individual executives, shapes what people inside it do
  • You will question whether the corporation's legal duty to pursue its own interest harms other people
  • You will look past corporate social responsibility claims and ask what a company's legal mandate lets it do to others

Who it is for

  • A voter wondering whether corporate scandals are one off or systemic
  • An employee uneasy about pressure to put profit above all
  • A citizen curious how corporations gained so much power

Contents

  1. Introduction
  2. The Corporation’s Rise to Dominance
  3. Business as Usual
  4. The Externalizing Machine
  5. Democracy Ltd.
  6. Corporations Unlimited
  7. Reckoning
  8. Appendix
  9. Interview with Noam Chomsky, October 24, 2000

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