Goodwin has done the seemingly impossible-he has made economics comprehensible and funny.

The corporation, like the psychopathic personality it resembles, is programmed to exploit others for profit.

The corporation was originally conceived as a public institution whose purpose was to serve national interests and advance the public good.

A century and a half after its birth, the modern business corporation, an artificial person made in the image of a human psychopath, now is seeking to remake real people in its image.

By leveraging their freedom from the bonds of location, corporations could now dictate the economic policy of governments.

Goodwin has done the seemingly impossible-he has made economics comprehensible and funny.

These are the elements of an emerging order that may prove to be as dangerous as any fundamentalism that history has produced. For in a world where anything or anyone can be owned, manipulated, and exploited for profit, everything and everyone will be.