Company:In Defense of the Corporation

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Short description: 1975 nonfiction book by Robert Hessen

In Defense of the Corporation is a nonfiction book by the business historian Robert Hessen. It was published by the Hoover Institution Press in 1979. In the book, Hessen defends the corporation as a legitimate institution against criticisms leveled by Ralph Nader and Mark J. Green in their co-written books Corporate Power in America (1973) and Taming the Giant Corporation (1976).

Reviews

Academic journals reviewing In Defense of the Corporation include the Academy of Management Review,[1] American Business Law Journal,[2] The Bell Journal of Economics,[3] Business History Review,[4] Columbia Law Review,[5] Journal of Economic Literature,[6] Modern Age,[7] Public Choice,[8] Southern Economic Journal,[9] the UMKC Law Review,[10] and the University of Miami Law Review.[11] The book was also reviewed in Barron's,[12] Human Events,[13] The New York Times ,[14] Reason,[15] and Worldview.[16]

References

  1. Locke, Edwin A. (July 1979). "Review". Academy of Management Review 4 (3): 475–477. 
  2. Kempin, Frederick G. Jr (Spring 1980). "Book Reviews: In Defense of the Corporation". American Business Law Journal 18 (1): 123–129. doi:10.1111/j.1744-1714.1980.tb00034.x. https://heinonline.org/hol-cgi-bin/get_pdf.cgi?handle=hein.journals/ambuslj18&section=17. 
  3. Preston, Lee E. (Autumn 1979). "Review: Vogel's Lobbying the Corporation, Winter's Government and the Corporation, and Hessen's In Defense of the Corporation". The Bell Journal of Economics 10 (2): 733–736. doi:10.2307/3003366. 
  4. Kemmerer, Donald L. (Autumn 1979). "Review". Business History Review 53 (3): 395–396. doi:10.2307/3114094. 
  5. Walter Werner, Columbia Law Review, JSTOR 1121936
  6. John C. Goodman, Journal of Economic Literature, JSTOR 2723920
  7. Peterson, William H.  (Spring 1980). "The Market Society". Modern Age 24 (2): 206–207. https://www.proquest.com/openview/710b7262c3a30763508389a1a0f16d57/1. 
  8. Baysinger, Barry D. (1981). "Review". Public Choice 36 (1): 201–204. 
  9. Richard D. Auster, Southern Economic Journal, JSTOR 1057263
  10. Robert C. Downs, UMKC Law Review, [1]
  11. Henry G. Manne, University of Miami Law Review, [2]
  12. Kelley, David (April 23, 1979). "Barron's on Books". Barron's 59 (17): p. 55. ProQuest 350673630. https://www.proquest.com/docview/350673630. 
  13. "In Defense Of the Corporation (Book Review)". Human Events 39 (40): p. 10. October 6, 1979. ProQuest 1310009374. https://www.proquest.com/docview/1310009374. 
  14. Goldstein, Tom (July 14, 1979). "Corporations and the State". The New York Times: p. D4. https://www.nytimes.com/1979/07/13/archives/business-and-the-law-corporations-and-the-state-plan-to-list.html. 
  15. Armentano, D. T. (July 1979). "Books: In Defense of the Corporation". Reason: 45–46. https://reason.com/1979/07/01/in-defense-of-the-corporation/. 
  16. "Briefly Noted". Worldview 22 (7–8): 56. July–August 1979. https://carnegiecouncil-media.storage.googleapis.com/files/v22_i007-008_a020.pdf. 

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