The corporation, law and capitalism : a radical perspective on the role of law in the global political economy / / by Grietje Baars

• Autore: Baars Grietje <1972->
• Pubblicazione: Leiden ; ; Boston : , : Brill Nijhoff, , 2019
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (498 pages)
• Disciplina: 345/.0401
• Soggetto topico: Criminal liability of juristic persons (International law); International criminal law - Econmic aspects; Law and socialism; Marxian economics
• Note generali: 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.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: The corporation, law and capitalism
• ISBN: 90-04-39286-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910793573103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Historical Materialism Book Series ; 188.