As institutional psychopaths, corporations are wont to remove obstacles that get into their way.

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

The whole difficulty I think that that we're facing now is the question of who is going to ensure that corporations are accountable. The problem with leaving it to activists and non-governmental organizations-even with the tool of the Internet at their disposal-is that those organizations and those people don't have the legal right to compel corporations to disclose information, and that is something that governments can do.

The genius of the corporation as a business form, and the reason for its remarkable rise over the last three centuries , was - and is - its capacity to combine the capital, and thus the economic power, of unlimited numbers of people.

Corporations now govern society, perhaps more than governments themselves do; yet ironically, it is their very power, much of which they have gained through economic globalization, that makes them vulnerable.

As institutional psychopaths, corporations are wont to remove obstacles that get into their way.

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