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The Corporation, Law, and Capitalism: A Radical Perspective on the Role of Law in the Global Political Economy

The Corporation, Law, and Capitalism: A Radical Perspective on the Role of Law in the Global Political Economy

Baars, Grietje

Paperback

Series: Historical Materialism

EconomicsGeneral LawSocial Movements

ISBN10: 1642591874
ISBN13: 9781642591873
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Published: Jun 16 2020
Pages: 498
Weight: 1.55
Height: 1.10 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

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, Baars demonstrates 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.

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