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Author : Scott Bowman
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780271044132
Author : Scott R. Bowman
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0271014733
Despite all that has been written about business and its role in American life, contemporary theories about the modern corporation as a social and political institution have failed to explain adequately the pervasiveness and complexity of corporate power in the twentieth century. Through an analysis of history, law, ideology, and economics that spans two centuries, Scott R. Bowman attempts to offer a complete interpretation of the way corporate power has achieved its dominant position in American society today. In The Modern Corporation and American Political Thought, Bowman demonstrates how judge-made and statutory laws have structured and regulated the growth of corporate power while preserving corporate autonomy. The argument unfolds within a historical framework that reconstructs the evolution of the corporation with reference to its two dimensions of power: internal (within the enterprise) and external (in society at large). Bowman examines and revises Marxist, pluralist, and managerial theories to develop his own political theory about class conflict and corporate power and offers fresh interpretations of the political thought of Herbert Croly, Walter Weyl, Thorstein Veblen, Peter F. Drucker, Adolph A. Berle, and John Kenneth Galbraith. Ultimately, this book sets forth the first political theory that adequately accounts for the power of the modern corporation in all its dimensions.
Author : R. J. Lustig
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1986-08-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0520058941
Author : Alin Fumurescu,Anna Marisa Schön
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2021-07-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781108489188
This collection of primary sources from the founding period covers the unique combination of theoretical influences in American political thought.
Author : John F. M. McDermott
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2015-11-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780271076102
If the current economic malaise accomplishes nothing else, it should help awaken us all to the realization that our country has been on a path of self-destructive behavior for several decades—a reversal of the progressive path that had made major gains in economic and political equality for a large majority of the U.S. population starting in the 1870s. It is John McDermott’s purpose in this ambitious book to explain why that reversal happened, how society has changed in dramatic ways since the 1960s, and what we can do to reverse this downward spiral. In Part 1 he endeavors to lay out the overall narrative of change from the 1960s to the present, emphasizing how a novel social structure came to be developed around corporate America to form what he calls “corporate society.” Part 2 analyzes what the nature of this corporate society is, how it is a special type of “fabricated” structure, and why it came to dominate society generally, eventually including the government and university systems, which themselves became increasingly corporatized. The aim of Part 3 is to outline a path of reform that can, if all its parts can be integrated sufficiently to be effective, put us on the path to restarting the progressive movement.
Author : Naomi R. Lamoreaux,William J. Novak
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674977716
Recent Supreme Court decisions in Citizens United and other high-profile cases have sparked disagreement about the role of corporations in American democracy. Bringing together scholars of history, law, and political science, Corporations and American Democracy provides essential grounding for today’s policy debates.
Author : Kevin Musgrave
Publisher : MSU Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2022-08-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781628954715
Taking corporate personhood as a starting point, Persons of the Market observes the complex historical entanglement of Christian theology and liberal capitalism to shed new light on their seemingly odd marriage in contemporary American politics. Author Kevin Musgrave highlights the ways that theories of corporate and human personhood have long been and remain bound together by examining four case studies: the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1886 Santa Clara decision, the role of early twentieth-century advertisers in endowing corporations with souls, Justice Lewis Powell Jr.’s eponymous memo of 1971, and the arc of the conservative movement from Ronald Reagan to Donald Trump. Tracing this rhetorical history of the extension and attribution of personhood to the corporate form illustrates how the corporation has for many increasingly become a normative model or ideal to which human persons should aspire. In closing, the book offers preliminary ideas about how we might fashion a more democratic and humane understanding of what it means to be a person.
Author : Jonathan Keller,Alex Zamalin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : POLITICAL SCIENCE
ISBN : 1138666351
6. The Dispossession of the Public and the "Common Benefits" Clause: Working Against Neoliberal Oligarchy through US State Constitutions -- Liberalism, Neoliberalism, and Oligarchy: Defining the Contemporary American Landscape -- Oligarchy -- The Common Benefits Clauses -- Calling Forth a Critique of Neoliberalism Rooted in the American Tradition -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- 7. John Dewey and the Geography of Power -- Intelligence, Integration, and Power -- Geography and Power -- The Contemporary Geography of Power -- Practicing Public Geography -- Note -- Bibliography -- 8. Counter-Patriotism and American Radical Politics -- Narrating Patriotism and the Left -- Conceptualizing Counter-Patriotism -- Intersections of Patriotism and Radicalism -- Counter-Patriots: William Lloyd Garrison and Emma Goldman -- Bibliography -- PART III: Conservative Political Thought -- 9. An Alternative Tradition in Conservative Political Economy -- Conservative Critiques of Capitalism: Antebellum Civil War to Present -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- 10. A Rich Tapestry: Varieties of Conservative Jurisprudence -- Bibliography -- 11. The Christian Right and the American Biblical Tradition -- The American Jeremiad -- The Rise of the Christian Right in the United States -- Neuhaus and Colson, Falwell, and Robertson -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index
Author : Renate E. Meyer,Stephan Leixnering,Jeroen Veldman
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2022-01-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781800433762
The Corporation engages with current issues of the corporation as an institutionalized organizational form, approaching the concept from the backgrounds of organization theory, law, and economics, combining different theoretical views and empirical approaches.
Author : Charles Merriam
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351535359
A History of American Political Theories is a comprehensive attempt to understand the full sweep of American political thought since the founding. Working within the liberal-progressive tradition, Merriam reviewed American political history in its entirety, from the founding down to his own day. He was not out to reduce political thought to a single element such as economics alone; his aim was to encompass the whole of modern social science. The political science of the liberal-progressive tradition has roots and assumptions that were born in this period and nurtured by scholars such as Merriam. The progressive tradition in general and Merriam in particular interpreted the rise of a new science of politics that would be required for the liberal-progressive world view he represented. His work stands at a momentous fork in the road; two great traditions of how American democracy should be understood, interpreted, and analyzed parted company and afterward each went their separate ways. These traditions are represented, respectively, by the founders and the liberal-progressives. There was much at stake in these academic debates, though the consequences were not entirely foreseen at the time. An overview of the authors, works, and general source material covered in History of American Political Theories is impressive. Merriam viewed the study of American democracy as an eclectic activity embracing the broadest definition of the social sciences, with particular emphasis on psychology. Such a transformation required that the social sciences be grouped as a whole rather than fragmented into separate and distinct academic departments.
Author : Adam Winkler
Publisher : Liveright Publishing
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2018-02-27
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780871403841
A landmark exposé and “deeply engaging legal history” of one of the most successful, yet least known, civil rights movements in American history (Washington Post). In a revelatory work praised as “excellent and timely” (New York Times Book Review, front page), Adam Winkler, author of Gunfight, once again makes sense of our fraught constitutional history in this incisive portrait of how American businesses seized political power, won “equal rights,” and transformed the Constitution to serve big business. Uncovering the deep roots of Citizens United, he repositions that controversial 2010 Supreme Court decision as the capstone of a centuries-old battle for corporate personhood. “Tackling a topic that ought to be at the heart of political debate” (Economist), Winkler surveys more than four hundred years of diverse cases—and the contributions of such legendary legal figures as Daniel Webster, Roger Taney, Lewis Powell, and even Thurgood Marshall—to reveal that “the history of corporate rights is replete with ironies” (Wall Street Journal). We the Corporations is an uncompromising work of history to be read for years to come.
Author : Kenneth Lipartito,David B. Sicilia
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0199251894
This collection of cutting-edge research reviews the evolution of the American corporation, the dominant trends in the way it has been studied, and at the same time introduces some new perspectives on the historical trajectory of the business organization as a social institution. The authors draw on cultural theory, anthropology, political theory and legal history to consider the place of the firm in nineteenth and twentieth-century American Society.
Author : Joel Bakan
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2019-12-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780735240155
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 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.
Author : Brian R. Cheffins
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2004-12-13
Category : Law
ISBN : 1139455362
Professor Cheffins' lecture offers a path-breaking examination of potential trajectories for legal scholarship. Considerable attention is devoted to academic writing on law, but little has been said about the process by which the relevant literature evolves. This lecture focuses directly on the evolution of legal scholarship. It identifies five potential trajectories, revolving around concepts such as 'progress', 'paradigms', the marketplace for ideas, intellectual cycles, and fads and fashions. Professor Cheffins offers a summary of each trajectory and then tests the propositions he has advanced by means of a case study dealing with corporate law. He argues that scholarly trends in law develop in a manner that is at least partially consistent with each of the trajectories he identifies, but acknowledges that none captures fully the dynamics at work.
Author : Abraham A. Singer
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780190698348
The Form of the Firm attempts to unveil the nature of the corporation as it exists in modern liberal societies. The author contends that economic theories understate the importance and danger of corporate power, and should be supplemented with a political analysis that foregrounds the sorts of political and moral values at stake in corporate activity.
