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Joel Conrad Bakan w Lansing, Michigan jest kanadyjskim prawnikiem i pisarzem.

Wychowywał się w East Lansing, Michigan, gdzie jego rodzice Paul i Rita Bakan przez długi czas byli profesorami psychologii na Michigan State University. W 1971 roku przeniósł się z rodzicami do Vancouver. Studiował na Simon Fraser University , University of Oxford i Dalhousie University

Pracował jako prawnik dla Brian Dickson w 1985. Tytuł magistra uzyskał na Harvard Law School. Po studiach wrócił do Kanady i uczył prawa w Osgoode Hall Law School w York University i University of British Columbia.

Jest autorem książki Korporacja. Patologiczna pogoń za zyskiem i władzą, która w krytycznym ujęciu analizuje rozwój i zachowania współczesnych korporacji. Opublikowana w roku 2004 posłużyła jako podstawa do filmu Korporacja, który w tym samym roku zdobył 25 międzynarodowych nagród.

Jest także autorem kilku książek na temat kanadyjskiego prawa konstytucyjnego w tym: Just Words: Constitutional Rights and Social Wrongs, których treścią jest analiza historycznych efektów jakie w promowaniu społecznej sprawiedliwości miał rozdział o prawach i wolności.

Bakan ma dwójkę dzieci ze swoją pierwszą żoną Marlee Gayle Klein, także akademikiem i profesorem prawa na University of British Columbia. Marlee Gayle Klein zmarła na białaczkę w 2001 roku. Bakan wspierał swoją żonę w chorobie - w tym czasie pracując nad Korporacją i ustanowił ku pamięci swoje żony cykl wykładów na temat sprawiedliwości społecznej aby w ten sposób upamiętnić jej wkład w prawo kanadyjskie i spuściznę feministycznej teorii prawnej. Obecnie jest mężem kanadyjskiej aktorki i śpiewaczki Rebecca Jenkins

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“A century and a half after its birth, the modern business corporation, an artificial person made in the image of a human psychopath, now is seeking to remake real people in its image.”

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Źródło: The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power (2004), Chapter 5, Corporations Unlimited, p. 135

“As the corporation's size and power grew, so did the need to assuage people's fears of it. The corporation suffered its first full-blown legitimacy crisis in the wake of the early-twentieth-century merger movement, when, for the first time, many Americans realized that corporations, now turned behemoths, threatened to overwhelm their social institutions and governments.”

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Joel Bakan

Źródło: The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power (2004), Chapter 1, The Corporation's Rise To Dominance, p. 17

“These are the elements of an emerging order that may prove to be as dangerous as any fundamentalism that history has produced. For in a world where anything or anyone can be owned, manipulated, and exploited for profit, everything and everyone will be.”

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Źródło: The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power (2004), Chapter 5, Corporations Unlimited, p. 138

“The corporation, like the psychopathic personality it resembles, is programmed to exploit others for profit.”

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Źródło: The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power (2004), Chapter 3, The Externalizing Machines, p. 69

“The corporation is not an independent "person" with its own rights, needs, and desires that regulators must respect. It is a state created tool for advancing social and economic policy.”

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Źródło: The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power (2004), Chapter 6, Reckoning, p. 158

“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.”

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Źródło: The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power (2004), Chapter 1, The Corporation's Rise To Dominance, p. 8

“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.”

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Źródło: The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power (2004), Chapter 2, Business As Usual, p. 36

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

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Źródło: The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power (2004), Chapter 3, The Externalizing Machines, p. 60

“The corporation was originally conceived as a public institution whose purpose was to serve national interests and advance the public good.”

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Źródło: The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power (2004), Chapter 6, Reckoning, p. 153

“Corporations now govern society, perhaps more than governments themselves do; yet ironically, it is their very power, much of which they have gained through economic globalization, that makes them vulnerable.”

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Źródło: The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power (2004), Chapter 1, The Corporation's Rise To Dominance, p. 25

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

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Źródło: The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power (2004), Chapter 1, The Corporation's Rise To Dominance, p. 22

“The corporation's legally defined mandates to pursue, relentlessly and without exception, its own self interest, regardless of the often harmful consequences it might cause to others. As a result, I argue, the corporation is a pathological institution, a dangerous possessor of the great power it wields over people and societies.”

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Introduction, p. 2
The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power (2004)

“As institutional psychopaths, corporations are wont to remove obstacles that get into their way.”

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Źródło: The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power (2004), Chapter 4, Democracy Ltd., p. 85

“The notion that business and government are and should be partners is ubiquitous, unremarkable, and repeated like a mantra by leaders in both domains. It seems a compelling and innocuous idea - until you think about what it really means.”

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Źródło: The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power (2004), Chapter 4, Democracy Ltd., p. 108

“Deregulation freed corporations from legal constraints, and privatization empowered them to govern areas of society from which they had been previously been excluded. By the end of the century, the corporation had become the world's dominant institution.
Yet history humbles dominant institutions.”

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Źródło: The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power (2004), Chapter 6, Reckoning, p. 139

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