Citizens DisUnited: Passive Investors, Drone CEOs, and the Corporate Capture of the American Dream

by Robert A.G. Monks

Book Overview

Democratic capitalism-the source of America's vast wealth, the foundation of our entire economic system-is threatened as never before, not from without but from within. Shareholders today no longer own, except in the narrowest legal sense, the corporations they have invested in. Emboldened by the Supreme Court and enabled by a compliant Congress and compromised regulators, America's CEOs have staged a corporate coup d' tat. They, not the titular owners...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1939282101
• ISBN13: 9781939282101
• Release Date: March 2013
• Publisher: Miniver Press
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"