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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 338.740973 EAN: 9780887388873 ISBN: 0887388876 Label: Transaction Publishers Manufacturer: Transaction Publishers Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 426 Publication Date: January 01, 1991 Publisher: Transaction Publishers Studio: Transaction Publishers Related Items:
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 Rating:  - Worthy of study today, as well as when it was written!I was lucky to have Professor Berle as a teacher at the Columbia Law School. I read the book then (in the early 1960s) and re-read it recently. It is timely reminder that the corporation--that great engine of our prosperity--has undergone significant (and not for the better) changes--not only from when the book was written, but also in the forty-four years since I read it last. Rating:  - worthless classic, error-ridden and misleading, even in 1932This book was NOT the first to stigmatize giant corporations for "the separation of ownership and control." Rather, the key to the book's success was the timeliness of its appearance, during the Great Depression, not because it had anything new to contribute to our understanding of publicly traded big businesses. Far from being a riveting spellbinder, the prose is dry and never eloquent. But it possesses far more serious defects, e.g. that the alleged novelty of 20th century corporations -- that ... Read More Rating: - The Unvarnished TruthAbout 6 years ago I visited the White Eagle Conference Center in beautiful central New York. This is a quaint place that must have been a real marquee in its time. On one of their obviously long under used book shelves (seemed like nothing had been touched for at least 2 decades) I noticed this book, an original copyrighted 1932 version. I couldn't put it down. It presented a thoroughly well written, seminal treatment of the conflicts that senior leaders exhibit even today, a full 75 years later. ... Read More Rating:  - Dated Classic "The Modern Corporation and Private Property" was hailed as an instant classic when it appeared in 1932. To my knowledge, it was the first book to spell out how modern corporate capitalism is characterized by pervasive oligopoly and the separation of management from ownership. These points are still valid today, and remind us that modern capitalism has little in common with the social system analyzed by Adam Smith and other Classical economists. However, most of "The Modern Corporation and Private ... Read More 
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