Corporations and society : power and responsibility

Author(s)

• Samuels, Warren J.
• Miller, Arthur Selwyn

Bibliographic Information

Corporations and society : power and responsibility

edited by Warren J. Samuels and Arthur S. Miller

（Contributions in American studies, no. 88）

Greenwood Press, 1987

• : lib. bdg. : alk. paper

Note

Bibliography: p. [313]-318

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This volume provides an interesting evaluation of the role of the corporation in American society. The book traces the historical role of the corporation. It discusses the corporation's obligations and influence in the policy-making process of government. Business Library Newsletter The year 1986 marked the 100th anniversary of one of the Supreme Court's most important decisions, in which it unanimously held that a business corporation was a person within the meaning of the Constitution, and thus entitled to constitutional protection. The decision, made almost casually, has had enormous impact on the development of the system of corporate capitalism in the United States. This collection of original essays, written by leading authorities from the fields of economics, law, history and political science, assesses the implications of the Supreme Court ruling from a variety of perspectives. The collected essays provide a thorough evaluation of the role of the corporation, and discusses its obligations, its influence in the policymaking process of government, and its internal structure as a political order.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Corporate America I. Doctrinal Origins Santa Clara Revisited: The Devlopment of Corporate Theory by Morton J. Horwitz The Sherman Antitrust Act and the Corporate Reconstruction of American Capitalism, 1890-1914 by Martin J. Sklar The One Best System? A Political Analysis of Neoclassical Institutionalist Perspectives in the Modern Corporation by Michael Barzelay and Rogers M. Smith II. Legal Language as Social Control and Economic Planning The Idea of the Corporation as a Person: On the Normative Significance of Judicial Language by Warren J. Samuels The Jurisprudence of Corporate Personhood: The Misuse of a Legal Concept by John J. Flynn The Paradox of Paternalism and Laissez-Faire Constitutionalism: The U.S. Supreme Court, 1898-1921 by Aviam Soifer III. Further Policy and Performance Consequences The Corporation and Antitrust Law Policy: Double Standards by David Dale Martin Bigness and Social Efficiency: A Case Study of the U.S. Auto Industry by Walter Adams and James W. Brock IV. The Corporation as Private Government: Democratizing Policy Implications Corporations and Our Two Constitutions by Arthur S. Miller Toward More Competitive Diversity in a Market Concentrated Economy by Samuel M. Loesher Moral and Criminal Responsibility and Corporate Persons by Martin Benjamin and Daniel A. Bronstein Profit Sharing and ESOP's: Improved Incentives and Equity Selected Bibliography Index

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Details

• NCID: BA01069345
• ISBN:
  • 0313250723
• LCCN: 86019451
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New York
• Pages/Volumes: xv, 328 p.
• Size: 25 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : KF1414
  • DC19 : 346.73/066
  • DC19 : 347.30666
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Corporation law -- United States
  • LCSH : Industry and state -- United States
  • LCSH : Industry -- Social aspects -- United States
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00207228