Occupation: Writer Birth: 1959
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 ….
These are the elements of an emerging order that may prove to be as dangerous as any fundamentalism that history has produced. For in a world where a….
The genius of the corporation as a business form, and the reason for its remarkable rise over the last three centuries , was - and is - its capacity ….
The notion that business and government are and should be partners is ubiquitous, unremarkable, and repeated like a mantra by leaders in both domains….
The whole difficulty I think that that we're facing now is the question of who is going to ensure that corporations are accountable. The problem with….
Governments can can send inspectors to companies. Governments can put legal requirements in place to disclose information that consumers and workers ….
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 ru….
The corporation was originally conceived as a public institution whose purpose was to serve national interests and advance the public good..
Goodwin has done the seemingly impossible-he has made economics comprehensible and funny..
Corporations now govern society, perhaps more than governments themselves do; yet ironically, it is their very power, much of which they have gained ….
Quotes from the Underground is a remarkable resource and must-read for writers, researchers, activists and indeed anyone who embraces progressive val….
By leveraging their freedom from the bonds of location, corporations could now dictate the economic policy of governments..
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 c….
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..
The corporation, like the psychopathic personality it resembles, is programmed to exploit others for profit..
The corporation is not an independent "person" with its own rights, needs, and desires that regulators must respect. It is a state created tool for a….
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 t….