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The Corporation - Joel Bakan

Description: ISBN 1845291743 / Author: Joel Bakan / Genre: Finance / Business / Career / ...this sharp expose of corporate life should certainly ... more

The Corporation - Joel Bakan ... provoke some debate. (The Bookseller)

Newest Review: ... to anybody else's interest, unless taking into account such interest is beneficial to the bottom line. This main thesis is ... more

... repeated throughout (maybe even too often); the rest is an analysis of examples and consequences. Big names from both sides of the divide appear frequently (from No-Logo Naomi Klein to Milton Friedman himself) and examples of corporate good deeds and misdemeanours are described and analysed. Corporations would like us to believe that they could be trusted to behave in a socially responsible way and work for the public good: that the tyranny could be benevolent. And of course, some do, and some work for the publi...more

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The Corporation - Joel Bakan: Tame the Beast (1019 words)
by - written on 02/09/06 (Very useful, 116 readings)
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...better to ask why have tyranny then whether it can be benevolent... This quotation from Noam Chomsky could be the motto to Joel's Bakan book. Hailed by reviewers as 'Fahrenheit 9/11 for people who think' and described by The Economist itself as 'surprisingly rational and coherent' ; this accompanying volume to the award-winning documentary of the same title is at least as much worth reading as the film is worth watching, perhaps even more as the argument that Bakan makes yields itself more to the verbal analysis then to on-screen depiction. The starting premise seems to be both attractive and simplistic: despite constant talk of corporate social ... Read the complete review