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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
Lawrence E Mitchell |
ISBN: | 0300090234 9780300090239 |
OCLC Number: | 462925935 |
Description: | 302 s |
Contents: | American liberalism and the fundamental flaw : the foundation of the corporate problem -- The perfect externalizing machine -- Corporate psychology 101, or All the corporate world's a stage : the constraints of role integrity -- Is wealth a value? -- Corporate managers : Dr. Jekyll or Mr. Hyde? -- Traditional stockholders : the night of the living dead -- The new stockholder : King Kong with a quotron -- Abandoning the stockholders -- The Dilbert society? : America's corporate workers -- Capitalism, socialism, and democracy -- America right MDUL and MDNM wrong : growing U.S. economic imperialism |
Abstract:
Corporations are often so focused on making short-term profits that they behave in ways that adversely affect their employees, the environment, consumers, politics, and the long-term health of the corporation. Lawrence E. Mitchell offers a criticism of this emphasis on profit maximization.
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"An important work about the place of corporations in economic and social life. This book will interest a general audience of readers who are worried about corporate excesses." Joseph William Singer, Harvard Law School Read more...
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