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How neoliberalism hides its true face
Ian Sinclair talks to academic JOEL BAKAN about his new book on corporate power and asks whether multinational giants have really changed and what concerned citizens can do to resist capital’s assault on democracy
Academic and author Joel Bakan
PUBLISHED in 2004 alongside the 2003 film documentary of the same name, Joel Bakan’s The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power was a timely and influential critique of the central institution of contemporary capitalism.
Bakan, professor of law at the University of British Columbia in Canada, has now published a sequel — The New Corporation: How ‘Good’ Corporations Are Bad For Democracy.
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