Pervasive Powers: The Politics of Corporate Authority

ISBN-13: 9780367476618 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 200 str.

Sara A. Aguiton; Marc-Olivier Déplaude; Nathalie Jas

Opis

In an era of systemic crisis and of global critiques of the unsustainable perpetuation of capitalism, Pervasive Powers: The Politics of Corporate Authority critically questions the conditions for the maintenance and expansion of corporate power.

Spis treści

1. The Pervasiveness of Corporate Authority: Repertoire of Actions, Material Effects, and Democratic Challenges Sara Angeli Aguiton, Marc-Olivier Déplaude, Nathalie Jas, Emmanuel Henry, and Valentin Thomas 2. The Making of the Spanish Pesticide Industry During the Early Francoist Dictatorship: Experts, Autarky, Agnotology, and Fascism José Ramón Bertomeu-Sánchez 3. Corporate Systemic Ascendancy. Perspectives from the Pesticides Industry in Post-War France Nathalie Jas 4. From Research Funding to Public Relations: The Making of a Food Industry Think Tank in 1970s France Thomas Depecker, Marc-Olivier Déplaude, and Nicolas Larchet 5. From Public Problem to Quiet Politics? How U.S. Automobile Insurers Mobilized for Regulation of the Industry (1959-1974) Stève Bernardin 6. Co-Producing the Rules of the Game: State, Insurance Companies and Private Equity in 1990s France Marlène Benquet, Paul Lagneau Ymonet, and Fabien Foureault 7. Transnational Professional Service Firms and the Corporatization of Infrastructure Procurement Chris Hurl and Anne Vogelpohl