Gangs of America: The Rise of Corporate Power and the Disabling of Democracy
by Ted Nace
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The corporation has become the core institution of the modern world. Designed to seek profit and power, it has pursued both with endless tenacity, steadily bending the framework of law and even challenging the sovereign status of the state. Where did the corporation come from? How did it get so much power? What is its ultimate trajectory? After he sold his successful computer book publishing business to a large corporation, Ted Nace felt increasingly driven to find answers to these show more questions. In Gangs of America he details the rise of corporate power in America through a series of fascinating stories, each organized around a different facet of the central question: "How did corporations get more rights than people?" Beginning with the origin of the corporation in medieval Great Britain, Nace traces both the events that shaped the evolution of corporate power and the colorful personalities who played major roles. Gangs of America is a uniquely accessible synthesis of the latest scholarly research, a compelling historical narrative, and a distinctive personal voice. show lessTags
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Amazing insights into the founding and growth of, as well as the history of public opinion regarding, corporations. I repeatedly found myself astonished at the book's insights, those related to the creation and atrocities committed by the first corporations, the founding of the US and the impetus for the tea party, as well as the implications for the future.
Indispensable for understanding how corporations have acquired their powers and privileges.
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- Nonfiction, Business, Economics, General Nonfiction, History, Sociology, Politics and Government
- DDC/MDS
- 338.0973 — Society, Government, and Culture Economics Production Biography And History North America United States
- LCC
- HD2785 .N32 — Social sciences Industries. Land use. Labor Industries. Land use. Labor Industry Corporations
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