Deregulation freed corporations from legal constraints, and privatization empowered them to govern areas of… — Joel Bakan
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.
Yet history humbles dominant institutions.
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