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Baars Grietje <1972-> |
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The corporation, law and capitalism : a radical perspective on the role of law in the global political economy / / by Grietje Baars |
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Leiden ; ; Boston : , : Brill Nijhoff, , 2019 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (498 pages) |
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Collana |
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Historical materialism book series ; ; volume 188 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Criminal liability of juristic persons (International law) |
International criminal law - Econmic aspects |
Law and socialism |
Marxian economics |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Based on author's thesis (doctoral - University College London, 2012) issued under title: Law(yers) congealing capitalism : on the (im)possibility of restraining business in conflict through international criminal law. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Front Matter -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Motto -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: ‘Das Kapital, das immer dahinter steckt’ -- The Roots, Development, and Context of the Legal Concept of the Corporation: the Making of a Structure of Irresponsibility and a Tool of Imperialism -- Capitalism’s Victors’ Justice? The Economics of World War Two, the Allies’ Trials of the German Industrialists and Their Treatment of the Japanese zaibatsu -- Remaking ICL: Removing Businessmen and Inserting Legal Persons as Subjects -- Contemporary Schreibtischtäter: Drinking from the Poisoned Chalice? -- Corporate Imperialism 3.0: from the Dutch East India Company to the American South Asia Company -- Back Matter -- Appendix A -- Appendix B -- Appendix C -- Appendix D -- Appendix E -- Appendix F -- References -- Index. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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In The Corporation, Law and Capitalism , Grietje Baars offers a radical Marxist perspective on the role of law in the global political economy. Closing a major gap in historical-materialist scholarship, they |
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demonstrate how the corporation, capitalism’s main engine from city-state and colonial times to the present multinational, is a masterpiece of legal technology. The symbiosis between law and capital becomes acutely apparent in the question of ‘corporate accountability’. Baars provides a detailed analysis of corporate human rights and war crimes trials, from the Nuremberg industrialists’ trials to current efforts. The book shows that precisely because of law’s relationship to capital , law cannot prevent or remedy the ‘externalities’ produced by corporate capitalism. This realisation will generate the space required to formulate a different answer to ‘the question of the corporation’, and to global corporate capitalism more broadly, outside of the law. |
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