The Limits Of Corporate Power

Author : Ira M. Millstein
Publisher : Beard Books
ISBN 13 : 9781587982026
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Limits of Corporate Power written by Ira M. Millstein and published by Beard Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a reprint of a previosly published work. It deals with the constraints on corporate decison making.

Author : Susanne Soederberg
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135249431
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Corporate Power and Ownership in Contemporary Capitalism written by Susanne Soederberg and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-09-14 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines neoliberal corporate power within the context of the American political economy and its relationship to emerging market economies in order to understand the global dimensions of the corporate-financial binary.

Author : Adam Winkler
Publisher : Liveright Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0871403846
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights written by Adam Winkler and published by Liveright Publishing. This book was released on 2018-02-27 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Morton Keller
Publisher : Belknap Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674181915
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Life Insurance Enterprise, 1885-1910 written by Morton Keller and published by Belknap Press. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ronald W. Cox
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136328424
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Corporate Power and Globalization in US Foreign Policy written by Ronald W. Cox and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-05-04 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than a decade into the new millennium, the fusion of corporate and state power is the essential defining feature of US foreign policy. This edited volume critically examines the relationship between corporations and the US state in the development of foreign policies related to globalization. Drawing together a wide range of contributors, this work explores the role of corporations in using US foreign policies to advance the interests of transnational capital in a wide range of contexts, including: how US government policies have contributed to the globalization of production and finance the ways in which transnational corporations have influenced the US relationship with China, a crucial linkage in the new era of transnational accumulation how transnational corporate power has shaped capital-labour relations, humanitarian intervention, structural adjustment policies, low-intensity democracy and the G20 summits the "corporate centrism" of the Obama Administration, whose policies have been consistent with the growing power of transnational capital in US foreign policymaking the politics and consequences of the embedded relationship between various sectors of the transnational capitalist class, global institutions and the US state, including the limits and contradictions of this relationship during the ongoing capitalist crisis. This work will be of great interest to students and scholars of both US foreign policy and international political economy.

Author : Fernando A.C.
Publisher : Pearson Education India
ISBN 13 : 9788131734629
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Business Ethics and Corporate Governance written by Fernando A.C. and published by Pearson Education India. This book was released on 2010-09 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mark A. Smith
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226764656
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book American Business and Political Power written by Mark A. Smith and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-01-26 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most people believe that large corporations wield enormous political power when they lobby for policies as a cohesive bloc. With this controversial book, Mark A. Smith sets conventional wisdom on its head. In a systematic analysis of postwar lawmaking, Smith reveals that business loses in legislative battles unless it has public backing. This surprising conclusion holds because the types of issues that lead businesses to band together—such as tax rates, air pollution, and product liability—also receive the most media attention. The ensuing debates give citizens the information they need to hold their representatives accountable and make elections a choice between contrasting policy programs. Rather than succumbing to corporate America, Smith argues, representatives paradoxically become more responsive to their constituents when facing a united corporate front. Corporations gain the most influence over legislation when they work with organizations such as think tanks to shape Americans' beliefs about what government should and should not do.

Author : Andrew Bacevich
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780805088151
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Limits of Power written by Andrew Bacevich and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2008-08-05 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Argues that America has an unjustified sense of entitlement and examines the economic, political, and military crises the author believes are a product of it.

Author : Edward S. Herman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521289078
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Corporate Control, Corporate Power written by Edward S. Herman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1982-05-31 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deep and detailed research into the workings of corporate enables Professor Herman to throw considerable light on how the board of directors operates, how important outside directors are, how new members are selected, and how multiple directorships interlock the large corporations. Throughout the book the author contrasts the power of the managers with that of other interest groups - bankers, family - and he concludes that power lies with the managers. But this has not changed the basic objectives of the corporation - the pursuit of growth and profits - nor has it enhanced social responsibility. After thorough investigation Edward Herman concludes that government regulation has done surprisingly little to reduce the autonomy of the corporation. Just as the influence of bankers and investors has been resisted, so has the effect of regulation. Improved communications and controls, geographic dispersion, and the enhanced adaptability and mobility of the large corporation have all played a part in maintaining corporate power and managerial control. Corporate Control, Corporate Power will be essential reading for executives, policy makers, regulators, and all those concerned to make the corporation more responsible and accountable.

Author : Sheldon Whitehouse
Publisher : New Press, The
ISBN 13 : 1620972085
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Captured written by Sheldon Whitehouse and published by New Press, The. This book was released on 2017-02-21 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A U.S. senator, leading the fight against money in politics, chronicles the long shadow corporate power has cast over our democracy In Captured, U.S. Senator and former federal prosecutor Sheldon Whitehouse offers an eye-opening take on what corporate influence looks like today from the Senate Floor, adding a first-hand perspective to Jane Mayer’s Dark Money. Americans know something is wrong in their government. Senator Whitehouse combines history, legal scholarship, and personal experiences to provide the first hands-on, comprehensive explanation of what's gone wrong, exposing multiple avenues through which our government has been infiltrated and disabled by corporate powers. Captured reveals an original oversight by the Founders, and shows how and why corporate power has exploited that vulnerability: to strike fear in elected representatives who don’t “get right” by threatening million-dollar "dark money" election attacks (a threat more effective and less expensive than the actual attack); to stack the judiciary—even the Supreme Court—in "business-friendly" ways; to "capture” the administrative agencies meant to regulate corporate behavior; to undermine the civil jury, the Constitution's last bastion for ordinary citizens; and to create a corporate "alternate reality" on public health and safety issues like climate change. Captured shows that in this centuries-long struggle between corporate power and individual liberty, we can and must take our American government back into our own hands.