- Hardcover: 240 pages
- Publisher: Viking Canada (AHC); 1 edition (Mar 12 2004)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0670889768
- ISBN-13: 978-0670889761
- Product Dimensions: 23.1 x 15.5 x 2.5 cm
- Shipping Weight: 431 g
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #377,924 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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In The Corporation, author Joel Bakan paints the world's largest and most powerful companies as greedy psychopaths whose relentless drive for profits is destroying lives, damaging communities, and endangering the planet as a whole. We all pay a price for the corporation's flawed character, he argues, with devastating consequences that include the deadly cloud of lethal chemicals that killed thousands at Bhopal, India, in 1984, and the Alaskan oil spill of the Exxon Valdez in 1989. Bakan, a professor of law at the University of British Columbia, believes the lying, scheming selfishness of the world's dominant economic institution must give way to more human values. The manifesto has spawned a documentary film, also called The Corporation.
In the book, Bakan tells compelling stories of corporate malfeasance with the help of a corporate spy, a labour activist, and a member of the Arctic Gwich'in Nation. He tackles the issues of sweatshop labour, vehicle safety, and marketing to children. As an ultimate example of corporate hypocrisy, Bakan points to the chasm between the Enron Corporation's cleverly crafted do-gooder image and its actual operations. "Unfortunately, this paragon of corporate social responsibility, Enron, was unable to continue its good works after it collapsed under the weight of its executives' greed, hubris and criminality." Bakan ends by listing ways to harness the pathological self-interest of the corporate leviathans: Corporations are our own creation, he argues. They have no lives and powers beyond what we, through our governments, give them. The change, he says, will come from all of us. --Carolyn Leitch
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" 'The Corporation is Farenheit 9/11 for people who think.' The Independant 'This fine book was virtually begging to be written. With lucidity and verve, Joel Bakan unveils the history and the character of a devilish instrument that has been created and is nurtured by powerful modern states.' Noam Chomsky '..one of those rare books that opens up a new world. It's message is compelling-- and more important now than ever. Robert Monks"
--This text refers to the
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Highly recomended,
By Paulina (Hamilton, Ontario) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power (Hardcover)
I highly recomend this book for anyone that is even remotely interested in globilization and the corporate world. It shows just how much of our daily lives are influenced and even controlled by corporations. It makes you realize that no matter what they say, a corporation really does only look out for itself, and any advertisements that claim that corporations help communities and people and save the environment out of their own good will have absolutely no truth to them. It also makes you realize how far a corporation will go to save a few dollars, knowingly putting lives at risk in the process.The book is also very well written, with plenty of explinations, so you don't need a background in economics to understand it. In short, I totally recomend this book to anyone that wants to know the truth about the corporation. It will make you sick to realize what lengths they will go to in order to exploit everyone and everything.
5.0 out of 5 stars
A thought-provoking, empowering book,
By A Customer
This review is from: The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power (Hardcover)
I watched The Corporation movie just a few weeks ago and loved it. It has changed the way I look at things and raised questions on my view on the world. I enthusiastically recommend the book as well!
4 of 12 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
ok, ok, saw the documentary, didn't read this book yet...,
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This review is from: The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power (Hardcover)
Certainly the documentary was marvellously insightful. Many decades ago very clever lawyers enhanced a breed of psychopathic entities, known as "corporations". This entity which is actually a legal person under law, exists to make money, and expand and make more money. Little or no conscience. Watch the film or read the book. Share with friends. Rinse. Repeat.
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