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The corporate form

Brian R. Cheffins (Cambridge): Corporate Governance Since the Managerial Capitalism Era. Lynn A. Stout (Cornell): The Corporation as Time Machine: Intergenerational Equity, Intergenerational Efficiency, and the Corporate Form. Hans Bernhard Schmid (Vienna): The Feeling of Being a Group: Corporate Emotions and Collective Consciousness. David Gindis (Hertfordshire): Legal Personhood and the Firm: Avoiding Anthropomorphism and Equivocation. Do corporations have minds? Joshua Knobe investigates. Alan Henry on how the company you work for is not your friend. Please, corporations, experiment on us — you don’t even need our consent. Kim R. Sawyer (Melbourne): The Invisible Hand: When the Firm Becomes the Bully. The Asshole Factory: Our economy doesn’t make stuff anymore — so what does it make? Justin Fox on who a corporation is supposed to serve. Bryce Covert on the surprisingly successful push to make Corporate America more democratic. Your boss wants to control your vote: Corey Robin on the real reason to fear corporate power. Business doesn’t always get its way: Everyone agrees that Washington is run by corporate interests — but is it so? Fast track to the corporate wish list: David Dayen on how the U.S. Trade Representative became Washington’s one-stop shop for the corporate trade agenda. Here’s how the government tries to save businesses before free trade destroys them.