State, Society, and Corporate PowerMarc R. Tool, Warren J. Samuels This volume of selections from the Journal of Economic Issues carries the institutional economics analysis of the acquisition and use of economic power into new and critically significant subject areas: law and economics, the public control of economic power, and international implications of public and private use of power to influence the flow of real income on a global scale. Its particular interest is the possession and use of corporate power, especially in relation to the state as a representative of society. |
Contents
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Power Contract and the Economic Model | 59 |
Legal Foundations of the Corporate State | 75 |
A New View on the Economic Theory of the State A Case Study of France | 97 |
John R Commons and the Democratic State | 127 |
Legal Counsel Power and Institutional Hegemony | 153 |
On the Nature and Existence of Economic Coercion The Correspondence of Robert Lee Hale and Thomas Nixon Carver | 173 |
Problems of the Social Control of Corporate Power | 275 |
Antitrust in a Planned Economy Anachronism or an Essential Complement? | 281 |
Realism and Relevance in Public Utility Regulation | 303 |
Apologetics of Deregulation in Energy and Telecommunications An Institutionalist Assessment | 329 |
Oligarchic Capitalism Arguable Reality Thinkable Future? | 349 |
Democratic Economic Planning and Worker Ownership | 371 |
THE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATE AND NATIONSTATE SYSTEMS OF POWER | 385 |
The International Corporate and NationState Systems of Power | 387 |
Judicial Regulation of the Environment Under Posners Economic Model of the Law | 195 |
Property Rights and Human Rights Efficiency and Democracy as Criteria for Regulatory Reform | 217 |
Institutionally Determined Property Claims | 233 |
Dangers in Using the Idea of Property Rights Modern Property Rights Theory and the NeoClassical Trap | 243 |
Property in Land As Cultural Imperialism or Why Ethnocentric Ideas Wont Work in India and Africa | 251 |
In Defense of Government Regulation | 259 |
PROBLEMS OF THE SOCIAL CONTROL OF CORPORATE POWER | 273 |
What Is Economic Imperialism? | 393 |
The Evolution of Colonial Institutions An Argument Illustrated from the Economic History of British Central Africa | 421 |
Global Corporations and National Stabilization Policy The Need for Social Planning | 433 |
The Industrial Economy and International Price Shocks | 457 |
The Information Society Implications for Economic Institutions and Market Theory | 473 |
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Beyond Survival: Wage Labor in the Late Twentieth Century Cyrus Bina,Laurie M. Clements,Chuck Davis Limited preview - 1996 |