Corporate Sovereignty : Law and Government under Capitalism

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In Corporate Sovereignty, Joshua Barkan argues that corporate power should be rethought as a mode of political sovereignty. Situating analysis of U.S., British, and international corporate law alongside careful readings in political and social theory, he demonstrates that the Anglo-American corporat...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Barkan, Joshua (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2013.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Law, General & Comparative.
Law, Politics & Government.
Sovereignty.
Corporation law.
Corporate state.
Corporate power.
Corporate governance > Law and legislation.
Capitalism.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Economics > General.
sovereignty.
Souverainete.
Corporatisme.
Pouvoir economique.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:In Corporate Sovereignty, Joshua Barkan argues that corporate power should be rethought as a mode of political sovereignty. Situating analysis of U.S., British, and international corporate law alongside careful readings in political and social theory, he demonstrates that the Anglo-American corporation and modern political sovereignty are founded in and bound together through a principle of legally sanctioned immunity from law.
Physical Description:1 online resource (256 pages).
ISBN:9780816686469

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