# Joel Bakan

- Quotes: 17
- Author page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/joel-bakan

## Books

- [The Corporation](https://www.leafyquotes.com/joel-bakan/the-corporation.md) — 15 quotes
- [The New Corporation](https://www.leafyquotes.com/joel-bakan/the-new-corporation.md) — 2 quotes

## Recently added quotes

> The corporation is not an independent "person" with its own rights, needs, and desires that regulators must respect. It is a state created tool for advancing social and economic policy.

p. 158 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/joel-bakan/the-corporation/the-corporation-is-not.md)

> The genius of the corporation as a business form, and the reason for its remarkable rise over the last three centuries , was - and is - its capacity to combine the capital, and thus the economic power, of unlimited numbers of people.

p. 8 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/joel-bakan/the-corporation/the-genius-of-the.md)

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

p. 153 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/joel-bakan/the-corporation/the-corporation-was.md)

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

p. 85 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/joel-bakan/the-corporation/as-institutional-psychopaths.md)

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

p. 60 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/joel-bakan/the-corporation/as-a-psychopathic.md)

> [...] legal curbs on corporate freedoms are needed to protect citizen's freedom.

p. 61 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/joel-bakan/the-new-corporation/legal-curbs-on-corporate.md)

> As the corporation's size and power grew, so did the need to assuage people's fears of it. The corporation suffered its first full-blown legitimacy crisis in the wake of the early-twentieth-century merger movement, when, for the first time, many Americans realized that corporations, now turned behemoths, threatened to overwhelm their social institutions and governments.

p. 17 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/joel-bakan/the-corporation/as-the-corporations.md)

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

p. 22 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/joel-bakan/the-corporation/by-leveraging-their.md)

> Deregulation freed corporations from legal constraints, and privatization empowered them to govern areas of society from which they had been previously been excluded. By the end of the century, the corporation had become the world's dominant institution.
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> Yet history humbles dominant institutions.

p. 139 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/joel-bakan/the-corporation/deregulation-freed-corporations.md)

> The notion that business and government are and should be partners is ubiquitous, unremarkable, and repeated like a mantra by leaders in both domains. It seems a compelling and innocuous idea - until you think about what it really means.

p. 108 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/joel-bakan/the-corporation/the-notion-that.md)

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

p. 69 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/joel-bakan/the-corporation/the-corporation-like.md)

> Dodge v. Ford still stands for the legal principal that managers and directors have a legal duty to put the shareholders' interests above all others and no legal authority to serve any other interests - what has come to be known as "the best interests of the corporation" principal.

p. 36 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/joel-bakan/the-corporation/dodge-v-ford.md)