The American Corporation Today

Carl Kaysen is D. W. Skinner Professor of Political Economy Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

"The American Corporation Today is an extraordinary and valuable collection of essays. Probably no other institution in America is as important to our economic welfare as large, publicly traded corporations. Yet, in the three and a half decades since Edward S. Mason and others examined the nature and social role of corporations in The Corporation in Modern Society, no other group of authors as distinguished and experienced as the groupresponsible for this book has attempted such an ambitious study. The authors of this collection bring to the task the wisdom and experience of many decades of study of American corporations, as well as fresh insights fromeconomic, political, sociological, and legal analysis."--Margaret M. Blair, Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution"This is a monumental undertaking and is the best book on the American corporation since the 1932 Berle and Means classic on the modern corporation. It will be essential reading for every student and executive concerned with corporate America."--Warren Bennis, University Professor and Distinguished Professor of Business Administration, USC, and author of Organizing Genius: The Secrets of Creative Collaboration."Academic and larger libraries should consider this important, scholarly work..."--Booklist