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Corporate business owns about 28 percent of the tangible wealth of the United States, and its share has not changed much during the past fifty years.

— Neil H. Jacoby Corporate Power and Social Responsibility: A Blueprint for the Future (1973)

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Payments made to, or extorted by, a corrupt bureaucracy can enable a socially chaotic system to function.

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An institution is likely to be more searchingly appraised if attention is focused at the outset upon its faults rather than its virtues.

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At the end of 1968, the United States contained about 1.6 million active, profit-seeking corporations and about 200 million people—one corporation for each 126 persons.

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During the recent nineteen-year period from 1950 to 1969, corporate profits, both before and after taxes, formed a shrinking proportion of the national income.

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During the war years, the United States government gave serious thought to acquiring a direct interest in Arabian [oil] reserves.

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