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The Corporation

The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power

by (author) Joel Bakan

narrator Rebecca Jenkins

Publisher
Post Hypnotic Press
Initial publish date
Jan 2017
Category
General
  • Audio disc

    ISBN
    9781927401200
    Publish Date
    Jan 2017
    List Price
    $26.00
  • CD-Audio

    ISBN
    9781927401187
    Publish Date
    Jan 2017
    List Price
    $50.00
  • Downloadable audio file

    ISBN
    9781927401217
    Publish Date
    Jan 2017
    List Price
    $20.00

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Joel Bakan, an eminent law professor and legal theorist, contends that “the corporation” is created by law to function much like a psychopathic personality, whose destructive behavior, if left unchecked, leads to scandal and ruin. Mandated to pursue, relentlessly and without exception, their own economic self-interest, regardless of the harmful consequences it might cause to others—a concept endorsed by no less a luminary than the Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman—the corporation's unbridled self-interest victimizes individuals, society, and, when it goes awry, even shareholders and can cause corporations to self-destruct, as recent Wall Street scandals reveal.

Despite the structural failings found in the corporation, Bakan believes change is possible and outlines a far-reaching program of concrete, pragmatic, and realistic reforms through legal regulation and democratic control.

Backed by extensive research, The Corporation draws on in-depth interviews with such wide-ranging figures as CEO Hank McKinnell of Pfizer, Nobel Prize-winner Milton Friedman, business guru Peter Drucker, and critic Noam Chomsky of MIT.

About the authors

Joel Bakan is a professor of law at the University of British Columbia.

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