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Gangs of America : the rise of corporate power and the disabling of democracy /
The corporation has become the core institution of the modern world. Designed to seek profit and power, it has pursued both with endless tenacity, steadily bending the framework of law and even challenging the sovereign status of the state. Where did the corporation come from? How did it get so much...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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San Francisco, CA :
Berrett-Koehler,
©2005.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; ONE: How Did Corporations Get So Much Power?: In which the author reads a poll, feels provoked and befuddled, and organizes his investigation; TWO: From Street Fights to Empire: The British roots of the American corporation (12671773); THREE: The Ultimate Reality Show: The brutal history of the Virginia Company (16071624); FOUR: Why the Colonists Feared Corporations . . .: In which the citizens of Boston demonstrate the use of the hatchet as an anti-monopoly device (17701773).
- FIVE: ... And What They Did About It: How the framers of the American system restrained corporate power (17871850)SIX: The Genius: The man who reinvented the corporation (18501880); SEVEN: Superpowers: The corporation acquires nine powerful attributes (18601900); EIGHT: The Judge: Stephen Field and the politics of personhood (18681885); NINE: The Court Reporter: Who really decided the Supreme Court's most important corporate case? (1886); TEN: The Lavender-Vested Turkey Go.