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Author Barkan, Joshua, author.

Title Corporate Sovereignty : Law and Government under Capitalism
Published Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (254 pages)
Series UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. Political Science and Policy Studies
Contents Introduction -- The Sovereign gift -- Personhood -- Territory -- Responsibility -- The Corporate University
Summary In Corporate Sovereignty, Joshua Barkan argues that corporate power should be rethought as a mode of political sovereignty. Situating analysis of U.S., British, and international corporate law alongside careful readings in political and social theory, he demonstrates that the Anglo-American corporation and modern political sovereignty are founded in and bound together through a principle of legally sanctioned immunity from law
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-222) and index
Notes English
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Subject Corporation law.
Corporate power.
Corporate governance -- Law and legislation.
Corporate state.
Sovereignty.
Capitalism.
sovereignty.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economics -- General.
Capitalism
Corporate governance -- Law and legislation
Corporate power
Corporate state
Corporation law
Sovereignty
Law, Politics & Government.
Law, General & Comparative.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2013010385
ISBN 9780816686469
0816686467
9781461944096
1461944090
9781452947358
145294735X