The corporation, like the psychopathic personality it resembles, is programmed to exploit others for profit.

- Joel Bakan

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…

- Joel Bakan

The notion that business and government are and should be partners is ubiquitous, unremarkable, and repeated like a mantra by leaders in both domains…

- Joel Bakan

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…

- Joel Bakan

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

- Joel Bakan

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…

- Joel Bakan

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

- Joel Bakan

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

- Joel Bakan

The corporation was originally conceived as a public institution whose purpose was to serve national interests and advance the public good.

- Joel Bakan