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The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power

Joel Bakan

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*Starred Review* Bakan, an internationally recognized legal scholar and professor of law at the University of British Columbia, takes a powerful stab at the most influential institution of our time, the corporation.

As a legal entity, a corporation has as its edict one and only one goal, to create profits for its shareholders, without legal or moral obligation to the welfare of workers, the environment, or the well-being of society as a whole.

Corporations have successfully hijacked governments, promoting free-market solutions to virtually all of the concerns of human endeavor.

Competition and self-interest dominate, and other aspects of human nature, such as creativity, empathy, and the ability to live in harmony with the earth, are suppressed and even ridiculed.

Bakan believes that, like Communism, this ideological order cannot last and that corporate rule must be challenged to bring balance and revive the values of democracy, social justice, equality, and compassion.

This eye-opening look at a system "programmed to exploit others for profit" has been made into a provocative film documentary that could be the next Bowling for Columbine. David Siegfried
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About the Author

Joel Bakan is professor of law at the University of British Columbia. A Rhodes Scholar and former law clerk to Chief Justice Brian Dickson of the Supreme Court of Canada, he holds law degrees from Oxford, Harvard, and Dalhousie Universities.

An internationally renowned legal authority, Bakan has written widely on law and its social and economic impact.

He is the co-creator and writer of a documentary film and television miniseries called The Corporation, which is based on the book.--This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

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*Starred Review* Bakan, an internationally recognized legal scholar and professor of law at the University of British Columbia, takes a powerful stab at the most influential institution of our time, the corporation. As... read full editorial
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Ray C. Anderson chairman and CEO of Interface, Inc. Since Rachel Carson's Silent Spring began to expose the abuses of the modern industrial system, there has been a growing awareness that profit at the expense of Earth --... read full editorial
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As incisive as Eric Schlosser's bestselling Fast Food Nation, as rigorous as Joseph E. Stiglitz's Globalization and Its Discontents, and as scathing as Michael Moore's Stupid White Men, Joel Bakan's new book is... read full editorial




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The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power
Joel Bakan
 A scathing expose of corporate America
(Minneapolis, MN) August 30, 2004 - 5.0/5 stars
I saw the documentary "The Corporation:The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power" over a month ago not too long after "Fahrenheit 9/11". The film is based on the Joel Bakan book of the same title. Joel goes into... read full review
 The Omnipotent Corporation
(Toronto, Ontario) May 5, 2005 - 5.0/5 stars
The Corporation - The Pathological Pursuit of Power and Profit, has public relation firms scrambling to re-engineer their "good will" strategies. Joel Balkin takes you on a timeline tour of the corporation from its humble... read full review
 The Corporation as Imposter Citizen
(Grayson, GA USA) December 25, 2004 - 4.0/5 stars
The modern corporation is a legally constructed entity with the overriding purpose and mandate of maximizing shareholder return. That seems innocuous enough, but the author clearly shows that corporations go far beyond... read full review




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