Quotes by Joel Bakan

Joel Bakan

A century and a half after its birth, the modern business corporation, an artificial person made in the image of a human psychopath, now is seeking to remake real people in its image.

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As a psychopathic creature, the corporation can neither recognize nor act upon moral reasons to refrain from harming others.

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As institutional psychopaths, corporations are wont to remove obstacles that get into their way.

Corporations

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Way

As the corporation’s size and power grew, so did the need to assuage people’s fears of it. The corporation suffered its first full-blown legitimacy crisis in the wake of the early-twentieth-century merger movement, when, for the first time, many Americans realized that corporations, now turned behemoths, threatened to overwhelm their social institutions and governments.

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People

By leveraging their freedom from the bonds of location, corporations could now dictate the economic policy of governments.

Corporations

Government

Location

Corporations now govern society, perhaps more than governments themselves do; yet ironically, it is their very power, much of which they have gained through economic globalization, that makes them vulnerable.

Corporations

Economic Globalization

Government

Dodge v. Ford still stands for the legal principal that managers and directors have a legal duty to put the shareholders’ interests above all others and no legal authority to serve any other interests – what has come to be known as “the best interests of the corporation” principal.

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Directors

Dodge

Goodwin has done the seemingly impossible-he has made economics comprehensible and funny.

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Governments can can send inspectors to companies. Governments can put legal requirements in place to disclose information that consumers and workers and other interested people need. Non-governmental organizations don’t have that legal power and to me, that’s what imposes substantial limitiations on how far we can go with trying to keep corporations accountable though non-governmental measures.

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Organization

I think Google’s founders are both a couple of guys with some high ideals which have been to some degree reflected in the way the company has been run in terms of its having a very good workplace and good employee programs, and now that they’re going public they want in some ways to be able to ensure that that kind of approach continues. So they’ve effectively put in place this notion of “Don’t Be Evil”.

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Running

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Quotes by Joel Bakan

Joel Bakan

A century and a half after its birth, the modern business corporation, an artificial person made in the image of a human psychopath, now is seeking to remake real people in its image.

As a psychopathic creature, the corporation can neither recognize nor act upon moral reasons to refrain from harming others.

As institutional psychopaths, corporations are wont to remove obstacles that get into their way.

By leveraging their freedom from the bonds of location, corporations could now dictate the economic policy of governments.

Corporations now govern society, perhaps more than governments themselves do; yet ironically, it is their very power, much of which they have gained through economic globalization, that makes them vulnerable.

Dodge v. Ford still stands for the legal principal that managers and directors have a legal duty to put the shareholders’ interests above all others and no legal authority to serve any other interests – what has come to be known as “the best interests of the corporation” principal.

Goodwin has done the seemingly impossible-he has made economics comprehensible and funny.

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