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Academic and author Joel Bakan
PUBLISHED in 2004 alongside the 2003 film documentary of the same name, Joel Bakan’s The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power was a timely and influential critique of the central institution of contemporary capitalism.
Bakan, professor of law at the University of British Columbia in Canada, has now published a sequel The New Corporation: How ‘Good’ Corporations Are Bad For Democracy.
And, true to form, he has also co-directed a documentary based on his new book.
In your 2004 book and 2003 documentary you argued corporations, as institutions, are imbued with the character traits of a human psychopath. What is the central argument of your new book?
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Corporations and psychopaths have a lot in common.
That may have crossed your mind when news of Loblaw’s huge profit and dividend boost to shareholders made news recently.
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Loblaw President Sarah Davis called it a “2020 winning streak,” and no doubt all the pandemic dead and unemployed would agree.
How corporations and psychopaths are alike was outlined by University of British Columbia law professor Joel Bakan in his 2004 book,
The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit.