Wealth By Stealth: Corporate Crime, Corporate Law, and the Perversion of Democracy

by Harry Glasbeek

Overview

How is it that corporations are able to behave irresponsibly, criminally, and undemocratically? Wealth by Stealth is a scathing introduction to the operations of the modern corporation, written by a corporate lawyer. Many writers point to the growth of undemocratic corporate power. Glasbeek takes these observations further and outlines clearly how corporations become so powerful. He also shows how they are able to act without regard to the behaviour and laws governing citizens and other groups. Glasbeek is known by generations of students for his brilliant, funny lectures at Osgoode Hall Law School. With Wealth by Stealth his informative critique of corporate behaviour becomes available and accessible to all. How is it “The corporation makes them do it”?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781926662459
Publisher:	Between the Lines
Publication date:	10/10/2002
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	384
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Harry Glasbeek is Professor Emeritus and Senior Scholar at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University. He has also taught at the universities of Melbourne and Monash in Australia, and the University of Western Ontario. He is the author of ten books including Wealth by Stealth: Corporate Crime, Corporate Law, and the Perversion of Democracy.

Table of Contents

**Acknowledgements

Introduction

1** The Corporation as an Invisible Friend

2 An Ill-Assorted Trio: Capitalism, the Market, and the Corporation

3 The “Small Is Beautiful” Campaign

4 The Small and the Ugly

5 The Westray Story

6 The Undemocratic Innards of the Large Corporation

7 When Big Corporations Speak, Governments Listen

8 Corporate Deviance and Deviants: The Fancy Footwork of Criminal Law

9 “It’s Not a Crime:” Reclassifying Corporate Deviance

10 New Corporate Responsibilities—or More Window Dressing?

11 The Legal Corporate Social Responsibility Movement: A Politics of Impotence

12 The Stakeholder/Social Responsibility Movement Goes Private

13 Government in Their Own Image: Corporations and Political Power

14 Outing the Captains of Industry, Finance, Retail, and Everything Else

**Notes and Sources

References

Index**