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The Corporation by Dr. Robert Hare

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In Joel Bakan's, "The Corporation," Dr. Robert Hare, a psychologist and internationally renowned expert on psychopathy, argues that over 100 fortune corporations state that they care about more than just profits, but also about the environment. These said corporations, in fact, consider their profits over the environment they claim to prioritize making them a psychopathic corporation. Psychopathic corporations are businesses that value self-interest and undermine moral consent. Psychopaths are dishonorable and present themselves in a likable way to the people but in reality are not describing what they really are like. In chapter two , Bakan states that corporations are not responsible for anyone or anything beyond their shareholders. The corporations are irresponsible, according to Dr. Hare, because everyone else is put at risk in order to make an attempt to satisfy the corporate objectives. The issue seen was the fact that corporations are socially irresponsible but he argues, "Law dictates what their directors and managers do, what they cannot do and they must do. ¦ [I]t compels executives to prioritize the interests of their companies and shareholders above all others and forbids them from being socially responsible “ at least genuinely so  (Bakan 35). Bakan continues and argues that because executives do not fully have ownership of the profits, they have to act in the interest and favor of the shareholder in order to avoid getting sued. In the book, the company Enron puts all their shareholders at risk benefit themselves in order for them to gain a profit. Millions of people lost thousands and millions of dollars to Enron because they were buying shares that appeared to be valued high. It turned out that the share value was extremely lower than what people were buying it at which benefited the company and not the shareholders. Companies were not always so psychopathic, in the book Bakan quotes Henry Ford in 1910: "I do not b

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