Corporate Irresponsibility

America's Newest Export

By: Lawrence E. Mitchell

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Hardcover | 2 January 2002 | Edition Number 1

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Corporations are often so focused on making short-term profits for their stockholders that they behave in ways that adversely affect their employees, the environment, consumers, American politics, and even the long-term well-being of the corporation, says Lawrence Mitchell in this provocative book. This is a significant issue not only in the United States but also in the world, for many countries are beginning to emulate the American model of corporate governance. Mitchell criticizes this emphasis on profit maximization and the corporate legal structure that encourages it, and he offers concrete proposals to bring about more socially responsible corporate behavior.

Mitchell declares that managers should be freed from the legal and structural constraints that make it difficult for them to exercise ordinary moral judgment and be held accountable for their actions. He suggests, for example, that earnings reports be required annually rather than quarterly, that the capital gains tax be increased on stocks held for fewer than thirty days, and that elections of corporate boards of directors be held every five years rather than every year. Mitchell places the problem of corporate irresponsibility within the broader context of American life and demonstrates the extent to which contemporary corporate behavior represents a corruption of our cherished liberal values of personal freedom and individuality.

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"An important work about the place of corporations in economic and social life. This book will interest a general audience of readers who are worried about corporate excesses." Joseph William Singer, Harvard Law School

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Introduction	p. 1
Groundwork: The Philosophy of the American Corporation
American Liberalism and the Fundamental Flaw--The Foundation of the Corporate Problem	p. 19
The Perfect Externalizing Machine	p. 49
Corporate Psychology 101, or All the Corporate World's a Stage: The Constraints of Role Integrity	p. 66
Is Wealth a Value?	p. 84
Structural Traps in the Name of the Law
Corporate Managers: Dr. Jekyll or Mr. Hyde?	p. 97
Traditional Stockholders: The Night of the Living Dead	p. 135
The New Stockholder: King Kong with a Quotron	p. 165
Abandoning the Stockholders	p. 185
The Dilbert Society? America's Corporate Workers	p. 208
Americans Abroad
Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy	p. 253
America Right and Wrong: Growing U.S. Economic Imperialism	p. 262
Conclusion	p. 276
Notes	p. 279
Index	p. 299
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