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Books we're reading this month
Gangs of America: The Rise of Corporate Power and the Disabling of Democracy by Ted Nace (2003, BK)
Just the kind of handbook needed to get to the bottom of the rise to the top of the corporation. Written by an ex-businessman who saw incorporation transform his startup from personable team-unit to faceless entity, this has some answers, but ultimately more questions. Can corporations now be destroyed? Or have we gone too far, and has human consciousness strayed (acquiesced?) to the point where modification is the only option? Historical anecdotes abound, starting with the early incorporation of British trading companies through to US Supreme Court decisions after the American Civil War that began handing corporations (now on the same legal footing as flesh- and-blood humans) untold power. If you care about the world and your place in it, read this book.
-Matthew Burrows <mburrows@republic-news.org> |
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