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.

Dodge v. Ford still stands for the legal principal that managers and directors have a legal duty to put the shareholders' interests above all others and no legal authority to serve any other interests - what has come to be known as "the best interests of the corporation" principal.

As a psychopathic creature, the corporation can neither recognize nor act upon moral reasons to refrain from harming others.

Quotes from the Underground is a remarkable resource and must-read for writers, researchers, activists and indeed anyone who embraces progressive values and hopes to rescue politics from corporate control.

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.

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