Joel Bakan The Corporation, The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power (2006)

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" i E AV I H 0 i" Born in East Lansing, Michigan in 1959, Joel Bakan is
professor of law at the University of British Columbia and an
internationally renowned legal scholar. A former Rhodes Scholar and law
clerk to Chief Justice Brian Dickson of the Supreme Court of Canada, he
has law degrees from Oxford, Dalhousie, and Harvard. His academic work
examines the social, economic, and political dimensions of law, and he
has published in leading legal and social science journals, as well as
in the popular press. His most recent book, Just Words: Constitutional
Rights and Social Wrongs, was widely and favorably reviewed. Bakan is
also writer and cocreator of The Corporation, a documentary film and
television miniseries based on this book. He has won numerous awards for
his scholarship and teaching, worked on landmark legal cases and
government policy, and served frequently as a media commentator. He
lives in Vancouver, Canada, with his son, Myim, his partner, Rebecca
Jenkins, and her daughter Sadie.
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182 NOTES companies that produce or sell goods made in low-wage
countries do similar self-policing, from Toys 'R' Us to Nike and Gap.
While no company suggests that its auditing systems are perfect, most
say they catch major abuses and either force suppliers to fix them or
yank production. "What happened at Chun Si [the factory making Kathie
Lee handbags] suggests that these auditing Choice" ("win back"),
available at www.bp.com. 8. Robert Monks, The Emperor's Nightingale:
Restoring the Integrity of the Corporation in the Age of Shareholder
Activism (New York: Perseus Publishing, 1998), 183-184. Corporations
became irresponsible, Monks said in an interview, when "the atom of
ownership" was broken and "owners became one group of people and
managers became another, suddenly nobody became responsible to society."
9. Monks, The Emperor's Nightingale, 163 ("same"), 171 ("safe"). 10.
Interview with Robert Monks ("effective"). 11. Interview with Elaine
Bernard. 12. Interviews with Ira Jackson, Charles Kernaghan, and Debora
Spar. 13. Interview with Robert Monks.
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NOTES 193 9. Michael Scherer, "Schools: Some of Bush's Largest Donors
Stand to Profit from Privatizing Public Education," March 5, 2001,
available at www.motherjones.com/web
exclusives/special-reports/mojo-400/schools. html (under Web
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Student Achievement in Edison Schools Opened in 1995 and 1996
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13. Interview with Jeffrey Fromm. 14. Interview with Milton Friedman.
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