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The Corporation in the 21st Century

Why (Almost) Everything We Are Told About Business Is Wrong

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The Corporation in the 21st Century

By: John Kay
Narrated by: Peter Wicks
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In the world of Adam Smith and Karl Marx, capitalists built and controlled mills and factories. That relationship between capital and labor continued in the automobile assembly lines and petrochemical plants of the twentieth century.

But no longer: products and production have dematerialized. The goods and services provided by the leading companies of the twenty-first century appear on your screen, fit in your pocket, or occupy your head. Ownership of the means of production is a redundant concept. Workers are the means of production; increasingly, they take the plant home. Capital is a service bought from a specialist supplier with little influence over customer businesses. The professional managers who run modern corporations do not exert authority because they are wealthy; they are wealthy because they exert authority.

John Kay's incisive overhaul of our ideas about business redefines our understanding of successful commercial activity and the corporation—and describes how we have come to "love the product" as we "hate the producer." This is a brilliant and original work from one of the greatest economists.

©2024 John Kay (P)2024 Profile Books, Limited 21st Century Economic Conditions Economics Modern Theory Taxation Business Capitalism
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The intriguing title and the general interest it evoked in my mind, I found both structure as well as content extremely disjointed, and therefore very hard to follow. I am disappointed in the content, especially as it has been produced by an expert in the field. Maybe poor editing, but certainly extremely hard to follow with way too much fear And strange digressions. Cannot recommend it.

Disjointed and disappointing.

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