A Brief History of the Corporation
We have a lot of problems plaguing our societies, and the way our corporations are structured, I believe, is one of them. It’s certainly easy to look at many corporations and think that the very idea is a bad one. It is also easy to look at them as some neutral vessel—a pattern humans find useful for organizing and accomplishing that which they cannot do alone and as such a tool for wealth creation. But whether we are going to abolish something so important, transform it, or allow it to remain as it is, we should at least understand what it really is—not what people today believe it to be, and not some idealized form of what they hope it to be. We cannot understand what the corporation really is without first understanding its history.
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