| Description |
1 online resource (xix, 498 pages) |
| Series |
Historical materialism book series ; volume 188 |
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Historical materialism book series ; 188.
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| Contents |
Introduction: 'Das kapital, das immer dahinter steckt' -- The roots, development, and context of the legal concept of the corporation: the making of a structure of irresponsibility and a tool of imperialism -- Capitalism's victor's justice? : the economics of World War Two, the Allies' trials of the German industrialists and their treatment of the Japanese zaibatsu -- Remaking ICL : removing businessmen and inserting legal persons as subjects -- Contemporary schreibtischtater : drinking the poison chalice? -- Corporate imperialism 3.0: from the Dutch East India Company to the American south Asia company |
| Summary |
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, they demonstrate 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 |
| Notes |
Based on the author's thesis (doctoral - University College London, 2012) issued under title: Law(yers) congealing capitalism : on the (im)possibility of restraining business in conflict through international criminal law |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed |
| Subject |
Criminal liability of juristic persons (International law)
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International criminal law -- Economic aspects
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Law and socialism.
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Marxian economics.
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International crimes -- Economic aspects
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LAW -- Criminal Law -- General.
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Criminal liability of juristic persons (International law)
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Law and socialism
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Marxian economics
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2019000072 |
| ISBN |
9004392866 |
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9789004392861 |
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9004297073 |
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9789004297074 |
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