Frontmatter -- Contents -- Chapter 1. The Corporation Nation Emerges -- Chapter 2. Before the Constitution -- Chapter 3. Corporate Iniquity -- Chapter 4. Corporate Ubiquity -- Chapter 5. The Benefits of Big -- Chapter 6. Governance Principles -- Chapter 7. Governance Failures -- Chapter 8. Regulation Rising -- Chapter 9. Corporate Governance and Regulation since the Civil War -- Chapter 10. Reforming Corporate Governance -- Notes -- Index -- Acknowledgments
Summary
Drawing on legal and economic history, Robert E. Wright traces the development of corporate institutions in America, connecting today's financial failures to weakened internal corporate regulation
