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Quotes from The New Corporation: How "Good" Corporations Are Bad for Democracy — Joel Bakan

born 1959 Canada

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

The New Corporation: How "Good" Corporations Are Bad for Democracy (2020)

Corporations have no internal constraints to stop them from flouting the law. Their legal makeup compels them to pursue profit and growth but say nothing about whether they have to abide by the law in doing so. As a result, decisions to break the law depend, as do all others, on whether the benefits outweigh the costs.

The New Corporation: How "Good" Corporations Are Bad for Democracy (2020)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Joel Bakan (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.