Joel Bakan quotes
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“Goodwin has done the seemingly impossible-he has made economics comprehensible and funny.”
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“The corporation is not an independent "person" with its own rights, needs, and desires that regulators must respect. It is a state created tool for advancing social and economic policy.”
-- Joel BakanSource : Joel Bakan (2005). “The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power”, p.158, Simon and Schuster
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“The corporation was originally conceived as a public institution whose purpose was to serve national interests and advance the public good.”
-- Joel BakanSource : Joel Bakan (2005). “The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power”, p.153, Simon and Schuster
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“These are the elements of an emerging order that may prove to be as dangerous as any fundamentalism that history has produced. For in a world where anything or anyone can be owned, manipulated, and exploited for profit, everything and everyone will be.”
-- Joel BakanSource : Joel Bakan (2005). “The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power”, p.138, Simon and Schuster
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“A century and a half after its birth, the modern business corporation, an artificial person made in the image of a human psychopath, now is seeking to remake real people in its image.”
-- Joel BakanSource : Joel Bakan (2005). “The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power”, p.135, Simon and Schuster
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“The notion that business and government are and should be partners is ubiquitous, unremarkable, and repeated like a mantra by leaders in both domains. It seems a compelling and innocuous idea - until you think about what it really means.”
-- Joel BakanSource : Joel Bakan (2005). “The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power”, p.108, Simon and Schuster
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“As institutional psychopaths, corporations are wont to remove obstacles that get into their way.”
-- Joel BakanSource : Joel Bakan (2005). “The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power”, p.85, Simon and Schuster
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“The corporation, like the psychopathic personality it resembles, is programmed to exploit others for profit.”
-- Joel BakanSource : Joel Bakan (2005). “The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power”, p.69, Simon and Schuster
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“As a psychopathic creature, the corporation can neither recognize nor act upon moral reasons to refrain from harming others.”
-- Joel BakanSource : Joel Bakan (2005). “The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power”, p.60, Simon and Schuster
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“Corporations now govern society, perhaps more than governments themselves do; yet ironically, it is their very power, much of which they have gained through economic globalization, that makes them vulnerable.”
-- Joel BakanSource : Joel Bakan (2005). “The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power”, p.25, Simon and Schuster
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“By leveraging their freedom from the bonds of location, corporations could now dictate the economic policy of governments.”
-- Joel BakanSource : Joel Bakan (2005). “The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power”, p.22, Simon and Schuster
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“As the corporation's size and power grew, so did the need to assuage people's fears of it. The corporation suffered its first full-blown legitimacy crisis in the wake of the early-twentieth-century merger movement, when, for the first time, many Americans realized that corporations, now turned behemoths, threatened to overwhelm their social institutions and governments.”
-- Joel BakanSource : Joel Bakan (2005). “The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power”, p.16, Simon and Schuster
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“The genius of the corporation as a business form, and the reason for its remarkable rise over the last three centuries , was - and is - its capacity to combine the capital, and thus the economic power, of unlimited numbers of people.”
-- Joel BakanSource : Joel Bakan (2005). “The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power”, p.8, Simon and Schuster
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“Dodge v. Ford still stands for the legal principal that managers and directors have a legal duty to put the shareholders' interests above all others and no legal authority to serve any other interests - what has come to be known as "the best interests of the corporation" principal.”
-- Joel BakanSource : Joel Bakan (2004). “The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power”
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“Quotes from the Underground is a remarkable resource and must-read for writers, researchers, activists and indeed anyone who embraces progressive values and hopes to rescue politics from corporate control.”
-- Joel Bakan
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