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Law professor Joel Bakan,[*] whose book The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power became the basis of the award-winning documentary of the same name, set out to assess corporations in the light of standard mental health measures we would apply to people. The appraisal is entirely fair, given that U.S. law has, since the late 1800s, regarded corporations as “persons.” “Viewed from such a vantage,” he told me, “many corporations meet the criteria of ‘sociopaths,’ acting without a conscience: not caring about what happens to other people as a consequence of their actions, having no compulsion to comply with social or legal norms, not feeling guilt or remorse.”
The Myth of Normal
Gabor Maté, MD
The “old feudal classes” were classes in that their economic predominance derived from specific forms of landownership. Their descendants, the German Junkers and the English Lords are no longer so directly linked to a specific economic location: they “have found new forms of economic power in industry and in the banks.” Nonetheless their sense of themselves as a social entity remains tied to their history and what they think of as their traditions.
Gramsci's Common Sense
Kate Crehan
William Jewett Tucker, a theologian who would later serve as the ninth president of Dartmouth College, wrote an eviscerating review of Carnegie's first 'Wealth' essay, suggesting, 'I can conceive of no greater mistake most disastrous to the end of religion if not to society than that of trying to make charity do the work of justice”.
No Such Thing as a Free Gift
Linsey McGoey
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