| Description |
xii, 436 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
1. Corporate Power -- 2. The Rise of the Large Corporation: Law and Legal Theory -- 3. The Reconstruction of American Liberalism -- 4. The Consolidation of Corporate Power: Law and Legal Theory -- 5. The Managerial Theory of Corporate Power -- 6. Toward A Political Theory of the Corporation -- 7. Looking Backward to the Future of Transnational Corporate Power |
| Summary |
Despite all that has been written about business and its role in American life, contemporary theories about the modern corporation as a social and political institution have failed to explain adequately the pervasiveness and complexity of corporate power in the twentieth century. Through an analysis of history, law, ideology, and economics that spans two centuries, Scott R. Bowman attempts to offer a complete interpretation of the way corporate power has achieved its dominant position in American society today |
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In The Modern Corporation and American Political Thought, Bowman demonstrates how judge-made and statutory laws have structured and regulated the growth of corporate power while preserving corporate autonomy. The argument unfolds within a historical framework that reconstructs the evolution of the corporation with reference to its two dimensions of power: internal (within the enterprise) and external (in society at large). Bowman examines and revises Marxist, pluralist, and managerial theories to develop his own political theory about class conflict and corporate power and offers fresh interpretations of the political thought of Herbert Croly, Walter Weyl, Thorstein Veblen, Peter F. Drucker, Adolph A. Berle, and John Kenneth Galbraith. Ultimately, this book sets forth the first political theory that adequately accounts for the power of the modern corporation in all its dimensions |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [393]-414) and index |
| Subject |
Corporations -- Political aspects -- United States.
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Corporation law -- United States.
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| SUBJECT |
United States -- Politics and government -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140455
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| LC no. |
94045439 |
| ISBN |
0271014725 acid-free paper |
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0271014733 paperback acid-free paper |
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