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Economic Ideology And The Rise Of The Firm As A Criminal Enterprise, William K. Black, June Carbone
Economic Ideology And The Rise Of The Firm As A Criminal Enterprise, William K. Black, June Carbone
Akron Law Review
Over the last 50 years, the institutions, ideology, nature, and power of firms in the United States have been radically transformed. Neoclassical economics has led that transformation, supplying an ideology that justified a dramatic increase in top executive compensation while dismantling the mechanisms that produced personal accountability tied to anything but relatively short term shifts in share prices. Yet, alongside the rise of the corporation, from the time of Adam Smith forward, has been concern that the separation of ownership and control creates opportunities to use the corporation as a “weapon” of fraud, and with the return of global financial …
The Business Papers Rule: Personal Privacy And White Collar Crime, John S. Applegate
The Business Papers Rule: Personal Privacy And White Collar Crime, John S. Applegate
Akron Law Review
The first step in this endeavor will be the development of a definition of white collar crime which adequately accounts for the difficulty in combatting it. The next step will be to examine individually the two competing goals law enforcement and privacy - to try to get a sense of the requirements of each. This will lead into a discussion of the conflict between the goals. The article will then move on to consider several unsatisfactory resolutions of the conflict, making that the basis for sketching out the necessary specifications of a good solution. Finally, the "business papers rule" will …