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Deregulation freed corporations from legal constraints, and privatization empowered them to govern areas of society from which they had been previous… - 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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Joel Conrad Bakan (born 1959) is a Canadian lawyer and writer. He was educated at Simon Fraser University (BA, 1981), University of Oxford (BA in law, 1983), Dalhousie University (LLB, 1984), and Harvard Law School (LL.M. 1986). He has taught law at Osgoode Hall Law School of York University and the University of British Columbia and served as a clerk for Chief Justice Brian Dickson of the Supreme Court of Canada.
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The corporation's legally defined mandates to pursue, relentlessly and without exception, its own self interest, regardless of the often harmful consequences it might cause to others. As a result, I argue, the corporation is a pathological institution, a dangerous possessor of the great power it wields over people and societies.
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