The corporation, law and capitalism : a radical perspective on the role of law in the global political economy /

In The Corporation, Law and Capitalism, Grietje Baars offers a radical Marxist perspective on the role of law in the global political economy. Closing a major gap in historical-materialist scholarship, they demonstrate how the corporation, capitalism's main engine from city-state and colonial t...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Baars, Grietje, 1972- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill Nijhoff, 2019.
Series:Historical materialism book series ; 188.
Subjects:
Criminal liability of juristic persons (International law)
International criminal law > Economic aspects.
Law and socialism.
Marxian economics.
International crimes > Economic aspects.
Droit international pénal > Aspect économique.
Droit et socialisme.
Économie marxiste.
LAW > Criminal Law > General.
Law and socialism
Marxian economics
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: 'Das kapital, das immer dahinter steckt'
  • The roots, development, and context of the legal concept of the corporation: the making of a structure of irresponsibility and a tool of imperialism
  • Capitalism's victor's justice? : the economics of World War Two, the Allies' trials of the German industrialists and their treatment of the Japanese zaibatsu
  • Remaking ICL : removing businessmen and inserting legal persons as subjects
  • Contemporary schreibtischtater : drinking the poison chalice?
  • Corporate imperialism 3.0: from the Dutch East India Company to the American south Asia company.

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