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Center-Left Politics And Corporate Governance: What Is The 'Progressive' Agenda?, Christopher Bruner
Center-Left Politics And Corporate Governance: What Is The 'Progressive' Agenda?, Christopher Bruner
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For as long as corporations have existed, debates have persisted among scholars, judges, and policymakers regarding how best to describe their form and function as a positive matter, and how best to organize relations among their various stakeholders as a normative matter. This is hardly surprising given the economic and political stakes involved with control over vast and growing "corporate" resources, and it has become commonplace to speak of various approaches to corporate law in decidedly political terms. In particular, on the fundamental normative issue of the aims to which corporate decision-making ought to be directed, shareholder-centric conceptions of the …