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Should 185 sovereign nations allow 750 giant corporations to invest corporate profits as they alone see fit, or must public authority be mobilized to protect public interest by reining in these economic behemoths as they roam the global markets? By integrating many fields of knowledge and bringing to bear their disparate viewpoints, Dr. Saari makes his own viewpoint clear: The people did not elect investment bankers and CEOs, and neither group represents the people and the public interest. His book is a compelling argument for offering others a place at the table and for giving them a voice in deciding how billions in world currencies should be spent or invested. Comprehensive, multidisciplinary, empirical and analytical, Dr. Saari gives a coherent, reliable examination of the many pressure points between globalizing corporations and the nations in which they are embedded (and to which perhaps they should be indebted).
Dr. Saari's exploration takes into account a variety of eactors: popular national sovereignty, the variable definitions of capitalism, clashing views on the need for foreign trade, corporate practices like labor downsizing in home nations and their growing labor, tax, and regulatory problems. He makes three key points: (1) Regulated capitalism by nations is a viable public control system to shape the investment choices of giant corporations in such a way as to include the public interest; (2) Popular sovereignty in a democratic society directs all subunits of that society. Corporations must be separate from the state and subordinate to it; and (3) Most nation-states need to cooperate more fully to regulate, in a globally coordinated way, the global actions of giant coporations, especially with regard to decisions on direct foreign capital investment. Meticulously documented, with a comprehensive bibliography and two important appendices, Dr. Saari's book is essential for scholars and students in a wide range of academic disciplines, and for their colleagues in policy making capacities throughout government and the world's growing and ever more global corporations.
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Preface
Introduction: An Eye on the Ball--Fortune 500 Globalizing Corporations
Foundations of Corporate Order: Popular National Sovereignty and Regulatory CapitalismCorporations and Nations
Popular National Sovereignty in America and Corporate Size
The Nation-State and Sovereignty
Capitalisms, Politics, Taxes, and Government Regulation of Major Corporations
Free Trade, Labor, and Corporate InvestmentFair Minimal Trade by Globalizing Corporations: Foreign Capital Investment, Services and Goods
Labor and Major Globalizing Corporations: Downsizing and Rightsizing as if People Mattered Not at All
Law, Order, and Globalizing Corporations: Risks of Foreign InvestmentLaw, Order, and Globalizing Corporations: The Civil Side of Global-Local Jurisprudence--Regulation of Civil Harms and Legal Responsibility
Eternal Global Corporations: Crimes, Regulatory Harms, Sentencing, Ethics, and Morals
Future Corporate Investments: Twenty-First Century RisksFuture Relations of Globalizing Corporations inside Democratic Nations
Appendices
Selected Bibliography
Indexes
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David J. Saari
