Joel Bakan

The corporation is not an independent "person" with its own rights, needs, and desires that regulators must respect. It is a state…

— Joel Bakan

The corporation, like the psychopathic personality it resembles, is programmed to exploit others for profit.

— Joel Bakan

As a psychopathic creature, the corporation can neither recognize nor act upon moral reasons to refrain from harming others.

— Joel Bakan

“The problem with capitalism is that "we have a global theology without morality, without a Bible." And that's dangerous, he warns -…

— Joel Bakan

Corporations now govern society, perhaps more than governments themselves do; yet ironically, it is their very power, much of which they have…

— Joel Bakan

The notion that business and government are and should be partners is ubiquitous, unremarkable, and repeated like a mantra by leaders in…

— Joel Bakan

By leveraging their freedom from the bonds of location, corporations could now dictate the economic policy of governments.

— Joel Bakan

Dodge v. Ford still stands for the legal principal that managers and directors have a legal duty to put the shareholders' interests…

— Joel Bakan

These are the elements of an emerging order that may prove to be as dangerous as any fundamentalism that history has produced.…

— Joel Bakan

Governments can can send inspectors to companies. Governments can put legal requirements in place to disclose information that consumers and workers and…

— Joel Bakan

The whole difficulty I think that that we're facing now is the question of who is going to ensure that corporations are…

— Joel Bakan

As the corporation's size and power grew, so did the need to assuage people's fears of it. The corporation suffered its first…

— Joel Bakan

The corporation was originally conceived as a public institution whose purpose was to serve national interests and advance the public good.

— Joel Bakan

I think Google's founders are both a couple of guys with some high ideals which have been to some degree reflected in…

— Joel Bakan

As institutional psychopaths, corporations are wont to remove obstacles that get into their way.

— Joel Bakan

Quotes from the Underground is a remarkable resource and must-read for writers, researchers, activists and indeed anyone who embraces progressive values and…

— Joel Bakan

The genius of the corporation as a business form, and the reason for its remarkable rise over the last three centuries ,…

— Joel Bakan

A century and a half after its birth, the modern business corporation, an artificial person made in the image of a human…

— Joel Bakan

Goodwin has done the seemingly impossible-he has made economics comprehensible and funny.

— Joel Bakan