Format:
1 online resource (210 pages)
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ISBN:
9781789904963
Series Statement:
New Horizons in Institutional and Evolutionary Economics
Content:
1. Financialization and the corporation in the twenty-first century -- 2. Capitalist development -- 3. Widening of the market and the transition from scarcity to abundance -- 4. Role of the corporation -- 5. Failure of federal policy to achieve social control -- 6. Corporations and finance -- 7. Case studies in financialization -- 8. Creating the path forward by social control -- References -- List of cases -- Index.
Content:
This insightful book traces the evolution of corporate power in the United States, from social control over corporate power under early state laws to the modern liberation of the corporation serving primarily private purposes. It illustrates how the transition of attitudes towards corporations and dynamic changes in public policy have ushered in an age of financial fragility, income inequality and macroeconomic instability.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781789904956
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Atkinson, Glen Evolution of the corporation in the United States Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2021 ISBN 1789904951
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781789904956
Language:
English
Subjects:
Economics
Keywords:
Geschichte
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Geschichte
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USA
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Industriebetrieb
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Wirtschaftspolitik
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