Fighting corporate abuse : beyond predatory capitalism / Corporate Reform Collective.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Corporate Reform Collective, author.

Contributor:

Corporate Reform Collective.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Corporations--Corrupt practices.

Corporations.

Capitalism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (216 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London, England : Pluto Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Fighting Corporate Abuse demonstrates, through compelling and revelatory analysis, the legislation and regulation needed to deal with the abuses in the corporate sector that have been revealed in recent years. It highlights the more general contribution of company law and practice to the current crisis in capitalism.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Introduction

Part 1: The Abuses

1. Tax Evasion and Avoidance

2. Cover-Up Accounting and Auditing

3. Avoiding Liability

4. Extracting Value

5. Managerial Self-Interest

6. The Mirage of Corporate Social Responsibility

7. Bad Banking and Market Manipulation

Part 2: The Reforms

8. A New Political Economy for the Corporation

9. Controls on Multinationals

10. Controlling International Tax Avoidance and Evasion

11. Reforming Systems of Governance, Accounting and Auditing

12. Banking Reform and the Control of Market Manipulation and Short-Termism

13. Small and Locally Based Alternatives

14. Towards New Corporate Forms

Notes and Additional References

The Corporate Reform Collective

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-196) and index.

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed July 22, 2014).

ISBN:

9781783711956

1783711957

9781783711949

1783711949

OCLC:

883919378