Alexander Styhre, Professor in Business Administration, School of Business, Economics and Law, University of Gothenburg, Sweden

‘The book makes a strong argument for developing a new view of corporate governance based on mainstream legal theory, management study research, and applied microeconomics. . . . Styhre provides us with much intellectual fodder for the key questions of the new millennium – most importantly, what role the corporation will play in ensuring a vibrant US economic middle-class in an era of contract employees, underemployment, and ongoing automation.’

• Contents Prologue: The Great Recession Durcharbeitung Introduction: The nature of the firm and its governance Part I: Instituting the firm 1. Corporate law and the legal environment of the firm 2. Managerialism, the problem of principal-agent relations, and free market advocacy Part II: Rethinking the firm 3. The agency theory model of the firm and its implications 4. Investor capitalism and the nexus of contract view of the firm: Assessing the consequences Postscript: Neoclassical economic theory and ideology Bibliography Index

Alexander Styhre, Professor in Business Administration, School of Business, Economics and Law, University of Gothenburg, Sweden

‘The book makes a strong argument for developing a new view of corporate governance based on mainstream legal theory, management study research, and applied microeconomics. . . . Styhre provides us with much intellectual fodder for the key questions of the new millennium – most importantly, what role the corporation will play in ensuring a vibrant US economic middle-class in an era of contract employees, underemployment, and ongoing automation.’

• Contents Prologue: The Great Recession Durcharbeitung Introduction: The nature of the firm and its governance Part I: Instituting the firm 1. Corporate law and the legal environment of the firm 2. Managerialism, the problem of principal-agent relations, and free market advocacy Part II: Rethinking the firm 3. The agency theory model of the firm and its implications 4. Investor capitalism and the nexus of contract view of the firm: Assessing the consequences Postscript: Neoclassical economic theory and ideology Bibliography Index

Alexander Styhre, Professor in Business Administration, School of Business, Economics and Law, University of Gothenburg, Sweden

‘The book makes a strong argument for developing a new view of corporate governance based on mainstream legal theory, management study research, and applied microeconomics. . . . Styhre provides us with much intellectual fodder for the key questions of the new millennium – most importantly, what role the corporation will play in ensuring a vibrant US economic middle-class in an era of contract employees, underemployment, and ongoing automation.’

• Contents Prologue: The Great Recession Durcharbeitung Introduction: The nature of the firm and its governance Part I: Instituting the firm 1. Corporate law and the legal environment of the firm 2. Managerialism, the problem of principal-agent relations, and free market advocacy Part II: Rethinking the firm 3. The agency theory model of the firm and its implications 4. Investor capitalism and the nexus of contract view of the firm: Assessing the consequences Postscript: Neoclassical economic theory and ideology Bibliography Index