The corporation as pariah? A point/counterpoint exchange.

From: The Advocate | Date: July 1, 2007| Author: | Copyright information

POINT (COWPER): LONG ON IDEOLOGY, SHORT ON INTELLECTUAL RIGOUR AND SOLUTIONS

In his popular book The Corporation, Joel Bakan argues that corporations are compelled by legal mandate to pathologically pursue profit and power. The book is of importance to B.C.'s lawyers because it has become one of the best-known products of our largest law school and because its central thesis is a legal one: the legal obligation of the company to pursue its shareholders' self-interest requires corporations to be psychopathic. Bakan is straightforward about his ideology, and effective polemic ...

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