Corporate Giantism, Ethics, and the Public Interest—A Critique

In this national mansion where Americans live with reverence and awe?and, alas, sometimes with cruel indifference?there has always been a sensitive concern over the paradoxes of power. Too much is tyranny and too little anarchy. In modern societies Hungarys are in? tolerable and Waldens impossible. And who holds power can be as crucial as the amount possessed. Mississippi's Ross Barnett, with rela? tively little, does more harm to the social fabric than Robert Kennedy with relatively much. Yet when vast public powers are assumed to be vested in the private hands of a minority within the business community the time for careful re-examination is at hand

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