Another indispensable text [aaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrr too many books but hey I read that one, anyway] that I've mentioned on this list before is Scott Bowman's 'The Modern Corporation and American Political Thought'; and from a Euro perspective Property and Power in Social Theory A Study in Intellectual Rivalry by Dick Pils which builds on some of Alvin Gouldner and L T Hobhouse....
Morton Horwitz' chapter on 'The Development of Corporation Theory' [The Transformation of American Law 1870-1960] shows lots of people were thinking about the corp every bit as deeply as Marx as contemporaries; capital's legal apologist enablers. Ian ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Perelman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2002 9:21 PM Subject: [PEN-L:21464] Re: Re: crisis causes the end of capitalism? Actually, it starts with Marx. On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 08:52:23PM -0800, Tom Walker wrote: > Galbraith's book dates to the mid-1950s. Peter Drucker also wrote a book on similar lines in the early 1940s. I would credit Berle and Means as the earliest articulate version of the theory (or story) in the U.S. There are also parallels with earlier Frankfurt School writings by Horkheimer and Pollard. > > Gene Coyle wrote: > -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
