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Bakan, Joel.
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Corporations.
Corporations -- Corrupt practices.
Corporations -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Corporate culture -- 21st century.
Social responsibility of business.
Democracy and environmentalism.
Democracy -- Economic aspects.
Corporate governance.
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Bakan, Joel.
Corporations.
Corporations -- Corrupt practices.
Corporations -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Corporate culture -- 21st century.
Social responsibility of business.
Democracy and environmentalism.
Democracy -- Economic aspects.
Corporate governance.
MARC Display
The
new
corporation
:
how
"
good
"
corporations
are
bad
for
democracy
/ Joel Bakan.
by
Bakan, Joel.
Allen Lane Canada, 2020.
Call #:
306.3 B166n
Subjects
Corporations
.
Corporations
-- Corrupt practices.
Corporations
-- Moral and ethical aspects.
Corporate culture -- 21st century.
Social responsibility of business.
Democracy
and environmentalism.
Democracy
-- Economic aspects.
Corporate governance.
ISBN:
9780735238848 (trade pbk)
Description:
240 p.
Summary:
"A brilliant follow up to the internationally bestselling The
Corporation
, with a
new
look inside the minds of
corporations
to see
how
they've changed and, most importantly,
how
they haven't. In 2004, Joel Bakan released The
Corporation
, a seminal book and documentary of the same name, which diagnosed
corporations
as institutional psychopaths. In its wake,
corporations
began proclaiming they had changed. Newly committed to social purpose and eschewing narrow self-interest, they now had a conscience, they said, and were poised to become part of the solution to global ills, claiming they would reduce social and environmental harm and reorient themselves to solving the world's problems. The
new
corporation
had emerged. But, as it turned out, it was not fundamentally different. Legally programmed to prioritize its own best interests, like its predecessor, the
new
corporation
was capable of doing
good
, but only in kinds and amounts that would help it do well; and it could refrain from doing
bad
, but not when doing
bad
was better than doing
good
for doing well. In short, the
corporation
's self-interested compulsions had not changed. It remained a psychopath--albeit a more charming one. And with its
new
charm, the
corporation
set out to cajole governments to free it from regulation (claiming it could now be trusted to self-regulate) and grant it control over previously public domains (claiming it could now be entrusted with public interests). Societies began to change, now no longer just having
corporations
, but being, in all dimensions, corporate. The results were ruinous. Corporate crime and malfeasance hit all-time highs,
democracy
was hollowed out, inequality widened and deepened, climate change spiraled, and, of course, Donald Trump became president. What, then, do we do? Joel Bakan's
new
book tells the updated history of
corporations
and the surging global resistance to them that has risen over the last fifteen years. Drawing from interviews with business and thought leaders, politicians, economists, activists, disruptors, and more, Bakan shines a light on the
corporation
of today: an entity that is somehow worse for trying to do better."--Publisher.
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