The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power By: Joel Bakan | Audiobooks – General Non-Fic | MP3@64.0kb/s | 181.98 MiB
2012-08-08 | ASIN: B008UDJBW2 | english | 6h36m
Author: Joel Bakan
Narrated by: Rebecca Jenkins
Joel Bakan’s book is a brilliantly argued account of the corporation’s pathological pursuit of profit and power. An eminent law professor and legal theorist, Bakan contends that the corporation is created by law to function much like a psychopathic personality whose destructive behavior, if left unchecked, leads to scandal and ruin.
In the most revolutionary assessment of the corporation as a legal and economic institution since Peter Drucker’s early works, Bakan backs his premise with the following claims:
- The corporation’s legally defined mandate is to pursue, relentlessly and without exception, its own economic self-interest, regardless of the harmful consequences it might cause to others – a concept endorsed by no less a luminary than the Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman.
- The corporation’s unbridled self-interest victimizes individuals, society, and, when it goes awry, even shareholders and can cause corporations to self-destruct, as recent Wall Street scandals reveal.
- While corporate social responsibility in some instances does much good, it is often merely a token gesture, serving to mask the corporation’s true character.
- Governments have abdicated much of their control over the corporation, despite its flawed character, by freeing it from legal constraints through deregulation and by granting it ever greater authority over society through privatization.
Despite the structural failings found in the corporation, Bakan believes change is possible and outlines a far-reaching program of concrete, pragmatic, and realistic reforms through legal regulation and democratic control.
Backed by extensive research, The Corporation draws on in-depth interviews with such wide-ranging figures as CEO Hank McKinnell of Pfizer, Nobel Prize-winner Milton Friedman, business guru Peter Drucker, and critic Noam Chomsky of MIT.
General Information =================== Title: The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power Author: Joel Bakan Read By: Rebecca Jenkins Copyright: 2012 Audiobook Copyright: 2012 Genre: Audiobook Publisher: Post Hypnotic Press Inc. Duration: 6 hours, 36 minutes, 16 seconds Chapters: 23 Media Information ================= Source Format: Audible AAX Source Sample Rate: 22050 Hz Source Channels: 2 Source Bitrate: 63 kbits Lossless Encode: No Encoded Codec: LAME MP3 Encoded Sample Rate: 22050 Hz Encoded Channels: 1 Encoded Bitrate: 64 kbits Ripper: inAudible 1.97 Book Description ================ Joel Bakan's book is a brilliantly argued account of the corporation's pathological pursuit of profit and power. An eminent law professor and legal theorist, Bakan contends that the corporation is created by law to function much like a psychopathic personality whose destructive behavior, if left unchecked, leads to scandal and ruin. Despite the structural failings found in the corporation, Bakan believes change is possible and outlines a far-reaching program of concrete, pragmatic, and realistic reforms through legal regulation and democratic control.
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