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US: IDEA OF COMPANY-AS-PERSON ORIGINATED IN LATE 19TH CENTURY
by Martha C. White, The Washington Post
The Supreme Court's 5 to 4 decision that rolled back long-standing restrictions on corporate campaign finance donations has generated a lot of Sturm und Drang from proponents of campaign reform and the White House itself. At the crux of the decision was a determination that corporations have a right to free speech. The court ruled that limiting the amount that companies can spend promoting their favored candidates is tantamount to denying First Amendment rights.
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by Martha C. White, The Washington Post
The Supreme Court's 5 to 4 decision that rolled back long-standing restrictions on corporate campaign finance donations has generated a lot of Sturm und Drang from proponents of campaign reform and the White House itself. At the crux of the decision was a determination that corporations have a right to free speech. The court ruled that limiting the amount that companies can spend promoting their favored candidates is tantamount to denying First Amendment rights.
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INTERVIEW WITH JOEL BAKAN AUTHOR OF THE CORPORATION: THE PATHOLOGICAL PURSUIT OF PROFIT AND POWER
By Richard Eriksson
On June 1st, I conducted an interview with Joel Bakan, author of The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power. The book is the selection for the One Book, One Vancouver city-wide book club. In it, he argues that publicly-traded corporations, in their Anglo-American form, are effectively psychopathic organizations, and that we need to redemocratize government in order to constrain the destructive behaviour of corporations.
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By Richard Eriksson
On June 1st, I conducted an interview with Joel Bakan, author of The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power. The book is the selection for the One Book, One Vancouver city-wide book club. In it, he argues that publicly-traded corporations, in their Anglo-American form, are effectively psychopathic organizations, and that we need to redemocratize government in order to constrain the destructive behaviour of corporations.
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CONSUMED; THE ALIENATION MARKET
By Rob Walker
In their 1944 work, ''Dialectic of Enlightenment,'' Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno advanced a theory on the far-reaching power of what they called ''the culture industry.'' This entity, encompassing all forms of mass culture, media and the businesses behind them, made up such a totalizing system that it was literally impossible to rebel against it. This complex not only anticipated the urge to revolt but would sell you something to satisfy it. (Che Guevara T-shirt, anyone?) It's a resoundingly depressing theory but an interesting one to recall, because anticorporate sentiment is lately prominent in pop culture.
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By Rob Walker
In their 1944 work, ''Dialectic of Enlightenment,'' Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno advanced a theory on the far-reaching power of what they called ''the culture industry.'' This entity, encompassing all forms of mass culture, media and the businesses behind them, made up such a totalizing system that it was literally impossible to rebel against it. This complex not only anticipated the urge to revolt but would sell you something to satisfy it. (Che Guevara T-shirt, anyone?) It's a resoundingly depressing theory but an interesting one to recall, because anticorporate sentiment is lately prominent in pop culture.
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INSIGHTFUL BOOKS PUTS UBIQUITOUS CORPORATIONS UNDER A MICROSCOPE - AUTHORS, FILM STUDY POWERFUL FIRMS AND HOW THEY GOT THAT WAY
By Alan T. Saracevic
What is a corporation? Short question. Long answer.
A corporation is a legal construct, or charter, granted by the government that allows multiple investors to share ownership of a financial entity without exposing themselves to individual liability. As Ambrose Bierce put it: "An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility."
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By Alan T. Saracevic
What is a corporation? Short question. Long answer.
A corporation is a legal construct, or charter, granted by the government that allows multiple investors to share ownership of a financial entity without exposing themselves to individual liability. As Ambrose Bierce put it: "An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility."
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CORPORATIONS AS PSYCHOPATHS
By Lyn Millner, Special for USA TODAY
Nearly everything we do involves a corporation — what we eat, where we work, what we wear, how we get where we're going. It's the dominant institution of our time.
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By Lyn Millner, Special for USA TODAY
Nearly everything we do involves a corporation — what we eat, where we work, what we wear, how we get where we're going. It's the dominant institution of our time.
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