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Record Nr.

UNINA9910966424403321

Autore

Barkan Joshua

Titolo

Corporate sovereignty : law and government under capitalism

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Place of publication not identified], : University of Minnesota Press, 2013

ISBN

9780816686469

0-8166-8646-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (254 pages)

Disciplina

346/.066

Soggetti

Corporation law - Law and legislation

Corporate power

Corporate governance

Corporate state

Sovereignty

Capitalism

Law, Politics & Government

Law, General & Comparative

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di contenuto

Cover -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 The Sovereign Gift -- 2 Property -- 3 Personhood -- 4 Territory -- 5 Responsibility -- 6 The Corporate University -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.

Sommario/riassunto

In Corporate Sovereignty, Joshua Barkan argues that corporate power should be rethought as a mode of political sovereignty. Situating analysis of U.S., British, and international corporate law alongside careful readings in political and social theory, he demonstrates that the Anglo-American corporation and modern political sovereignty are founded in and bound together through a principle of legally sanctioned immunity from law.