A review by clamberg
The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power by Joel Bakan

1.0

Short book (213 pages including end notes) but hard to finish because it sucked. a bunch of pointless facts and "stats" about how corporations have been screwing people over for years... like people don't know that already. but what ruined this book for me is the recurring theme about calling the corporation a "psychopath" and using that stupid angle over and over to explain why corporations do "bad" things. i felt like i was being talked down to or something as i read the book. people run those companies no matter how much one tries to personify companies and corporations.. yet "bakan" not once calls out ceo's/executives for their unethical behavior and blames the "corporation" for being a "psychopath"
what a joke
then there were "examples" of how republicans in particular either helped deregulate some part of the economy or did something for corps to profit form them and vice versa. not 1 mention of democrats benefiting from doin deals with corporations. maybe democrats are really nice and don't get into these kind of suspect deals right? what a joke. this book sucks.