The corporation, law and capitalism, a radical perspective on the role of law in the global political economy, by Grietje Baars
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The corporation, law and capitalism, a radical perspective on the role of law in the global political economy, by Grietje Baars
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eng
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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index present
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non fiction
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The corporation, law and capitalism
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electronic resource
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dictionariesbibliography
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1081366387
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by Grietje Baars
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Historical materialism book series, volume 188Brill E-Books
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a radical perspective on the role of law in the global political economy
Summary
In The Corporation, Law and Capitalism , Grietje Baars offers a radical Marxist perspective on the role of law in the global political economy. Closing a major gap in historical-materialist scholarship, they demonstrate how the corporation, capitalism's main engine from city-state and colonial times to the present multinational, is a masterpiece of legal technology. The symbiosis between law and capital becomes acutely apparent in the question of 'corporate accountability'. Baars provides a detailed analysis of corporate human rights and war crimes trials, from the Nuremberg industrialists' trials to current efforts. The book shows that precisely because of law's relationship to capital , law cannot prevent or remedy the 'externalities' produced by corporate capitalism. This realisation will generate the space required to formulate a different answer to 'the question of the corporation', and to global corporate capitalism more broadly, outside of the law.--, Provided by Publisher
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