PDF-(BOOK)-The New Corporation: How Good Corporations Are Bad for Democracy

br A brilliant follow up to the internationally bestselling br br The Corporationbr br with a new look inside the minds of corporations to see how theyve changed and most importantly how they haventbrIn 2004 Joel Bakan released The Corporation a seminal book and documentary of the same name which diagnosed corporations as institutional psychopaths In its wake corporations began proclaiming they had changed Newly committed to social purpose and eschewing narrow selfinterest they now had a conscience they said and were poised to become part of the solution to global ills claiming they would reduce social and environmental harm and reorient themselves to solving the worlds problems The new corporation had emergedBut as it turned out it was not fundamentally different Legally programmed to prioritize its own best interests like its predecessor the new corporation was capable of doing good but only in kinds and amounts that would help it do well and it could refrain from doing bad but not when doing bad was better than doing good for doing well In short the corporations selfinterested compulsions had not changed It remained a psychopathalbeit a more charming oneAnd with its new charm the corporation set out to cajole governments to free it from regulation claiming it could now be trusted to selfregulate and grant it control over previously public domains claiming it could now be entrusted with public interests Societies began to change now no longer just having corporations but being in all dimensions corporate The results were ruinous Corporate crime and malfeasance hit alltime highs democracy was hollowed out inequality widened and deepened climate change spiraled and of course Donald Trump became presidentWhat then do we do Joel Bakans new book tells the updated history of corporations and the surging global resistance to them that has risen over the last fifteen years Drawing from interviews with business and thought leaders politicians economists activists disruptors and more Bakan shines a light on the corporation of today an entity that is somehow worse for trying to do better. 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