A new issue of the Journal of Business Anthropology is out. Teemu Ruskola (Emory): What is a Corporation? Liberal, Confucian, and Socialist Theories of Enterprise Organization (and State, Family, and Personhood). What the Hobby Lobby ruling means for America: Corporations, it turns out, really are people — and that could be very bad news for the rest of us. Thrown out of court: Lina Khan on how corporations became people you can't sue. George Dvorsky on why it's time to destroy corporate personhood. Corporations are people — so what if people were corporations? Jeff Schwartz (Utah): The Corporatization of Personhood. Avital Mentovich (UCLA), Aziz Z. Huq (Chicago), and Moran Cerf (Northwestern): The Psychology of Corporate Rights. Jefferson Cowie reviews The Employee: A Political History by Jean-Christian Vinel. From the forthcoming The Moral Responsibility of Firms: For and Against, John Hasnas (Georgetown): The Phantom Menace of the Responsibility Deficit. Miriam H. Baer (Brooklyn): Confronting the Two Faces of Corporate Fraud. Christine Bader on how companies commit human-rights abuses in America, too — and yet Americans tend not to describe the exploitation that way. How do business interest groups influence social policy-making? Thomas Paster on business and the welfare state — a literature review. Danielle Kurtzleben on everything you need to know about Walmart, in nine charts. Alana Massey on the last days of Abercrombie & Fitch. Barnali Choudhury (Queen Mary): Gender Diversity on Boards: Beyond Quotas. Bryce Covert on why it's time to fix the very pale, very male boardroom.
