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More copies of this ISBN:This title in other formats:Gangs of America: The Rise of Corporate Power and the Disabling of Democracyby Ted Nace
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:From its roots in 17th-century Britain to its modern incarnation in Enron and WorldCom, the modern corporation — restless, autonomous, and self-perpetuating — has gained potency. Designed to seek profit and power, the corporation has pursued both objectives with endless tenacity, steadily bending the framework of the law and incurring destruction in its path. Where did the corporation come from? How did it get so much power? What is its ultimate trajectory? Considering the importance of such questions, it is surprisingly difficult to find answers. <BR>Using cutting-edge research from academic historians, sociologists, political scientists, and legal scholars, "Gangs of America attempts to answer these questions in a unique, riveting narrative. The book recounts the settlement of America by corporations, details the surprising impetus for the Revolutionary War, then traces the expansion of corporate rights onto the global stage — culminating in an assessment of current struggles over such issues as media control and campaign finance reform. Part of the "BK Currents series, the book promotes positive social change. Book News Annotation:This is a synthetic historical account of the rise of the corporation
and its gradual consolidation of political, legal, and economic power
in the United States and globally. Written for a general audience,
the narrative traces the development of corporations from their
earliest beginnings in the English craft and merchant guilds through
the political and legal battles that allowed them to gain their
current position of global power at the expense of democratic
controls. Unlike other works on the topic, the author valuably
extends the discussion of the development corporate rights beyond the
infamous Supreme Court decision in Santa Clara County v. Southern
Pacific Railroad to identify three stages in the creation of
corporate rights: legislative creation of corporate quasi-rights
(1820-1900), judicial creation of corporate-constitutional rights
(1886-1986), and trade agreement creation of corporate global rights
(1987-present). For this new edition, he has added a chapter on
alternatives that points to the European Union's corporate model.
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