Corporate Sovereignty - Law and Government Under Capitalism Barkan JoshuaPaperback
Corporate Sovereignty - Law and Government Under Capitalism Barkan JoshuaPaperback Refinery explosions. Bank meltdowns. Accounting scandals. In response, advocates have suggested reforms ranging from…
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Corporate Sovereignty - Law and Government Under Capitalism Barkan JoshuaPaperback
Refinery explosions. Bank meltdowns. Accounting scandals.
In response, advocates have suggested reforms ranging from increased government regulation to corporate codes of conduct to stop corporate abuses. All of these catastrophes--and many more--might rightfully be blamed on corporations. Joshua Barkan writes that these reactions, which view law as a limit on corporations, misunderstand the role of law in fostering corporate power.In Corporate Sovereignty, Barkan argues that corporate power should be rethought as a mode of political sovereignty.
Rather than treating the economic power of corporations as a threat to the political sovereignty of states, Barkan shows that the two are ontologically linked. Situating analysis of U.S., British, and international corporate law alongside careful readings in political and social theory, he demonstrates that the Anglo-American
Corporate Law