Corporations
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22369999 |
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| Authors | Suzana Sawyer (University of California, Davis, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Pages | 1-9 |
| Publication date | 2018-09-05 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | OTHER |
| Venue | The International Encyclopedia of Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/9781118924396.wbiea2087 |
| OpenAlex | W4238237779 |
| ISBN | 9781118924396 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 5 |
At the dawn of the twenty‐first century, the corporation appears as one of the more stable, enduring, ubiquitous, and influential institutions of modern life. This entry provides a genealogy of the corporation and a suggestive guide for considering corporate power as a problematic. Rather than the inexorable product of a capitalist logic or fated quintessence of liberal democracy, the modern corporation, as discussed here, has a singular relation with the state—an incomplete doubling, an imperfect iteration, of inclusion and excess whereby over the past centuries the one has informed the constitutive order of the other. And, in the passage through the centuries, this less‐than‐isomorphic and always interested relationality has rendered the “economy” its effect. It is this that has made the corporation the legal form and material force that acts on our world today
Corporation · Democracy · Economics · Imperfect · Law and economics · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Computer Science · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Law · Philosophy · Political Economy and Marxism · Finance
| Highly cited | No |
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