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The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power Joel Bakan 
Rating: 4.5/5 Stars Rank: 8647 (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 beginnings when proprietors were responsible for the day-to-day management of the business and shared jointly in liability, to modern day corporations whose majority stockholders are shielded by layers of management and laws so that they are never legally responsible for any damages. Balkin unveils the modern day corporation as essentially taking little to no responsibility for any wrong doing and being primarily motivated to increase the interests of its shareholders at any cost. Today's corporations only obey the law when the cost of the crime exceeds the profits and the only social responsibility that they project is that which the public relation firms are paid top dollars to formulate. This novel was both insightful and disturbing. The comparison and similarities of the psychopathic individual to the corporation seemed to be a stretch at the beginning and grew to be disturbingly real the more you read. Considering that psychopathic individuals do not show remorse after a crime or have any social conscience, the definition of the corporation as a clinical psychopath, considering the harm they inflict on the environment and people, seems to be a logical one. The Corporation is essential reading for anyone who is tired of keeping their heads in the sand.
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