A deeply informed and unflinching look at the way corporations have slyly rebranded themselves as socially conscious entities ready to tackle society''s problems, while CEO compensation soars, income inequality is at all-time highs, and democracy sits in a precarious situation.
 
“A very important book, an arresting study directed to a central issue of the times” (Noam Chomsky), from the author of The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power.

Over the last decade and a half, business leaders have been calling for a new kind of capitalismWith income inequality soaring, wages stagnating, and a climate crisis escalating, they realized that they had to make social and environmental values the very core of their messaging. The problem is corporations are still, first and foremost, concerned with their bottom line.
     In lucid and engaging prose, Joel Bakan documents how increasing corporate freedom encroaches on individual liberty and democracyThrough deep research and interviews with both top executives and their sharpest critics, he exposes the inhumanity and destructive force of the current order--profit-driven privatization subverting the public good, governments neglecting duties to protect the environment, the increasing alienation we experience as every aspect of life is economized, and how the Covid-19 pandemic lays bare the unjust fault lines of our corporate-led society.
     Beyond diagnosing major problems, in The New Corporation Bakan narrates a hopeful path forwardHe reveals how citizens around the world are fighting back and making gains in ways that bolster democracy and benefit ordinary citizens rather than the corporate elite.


Format Häftad Omfång 240 sidor Språk Engelska Förlag Random House USA Inc Utgivningsdatum 2020-09-22 ISBN 9781984899729