The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and PowerA revolutionary analysis of the corporation as an artificial person, programmed by law to operate in ways that in a human would be clearly psychopathic. And, since the corporation has claimed rights once reserved for human beings, Bakan argues that it is time for us to decide whether we are happy to put our trust in a system in which the lunatics have not only taken over the asylum but also own it lock, stock and barrel. |
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Introduction | 1 |
TWO Business as Usual | 28 |
THREE The Externalizing Machine | 60 |
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