The Corporation in the Twenty-First Century: Why (Almost) Everything We Are Told about Business Is Wrong by Kay, John
The Corporation in the Twenty-First Century: Why (Almost) Everything We Are Told about Business Is Wrong by Kay, John

The Corporation in the Twenty-First Century: Why (Almost) Everything We Are Told about Business Is Wrong

A radical reappraisal of the nature and activities of business--what it is for and how it works...
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The Corporation in the Twenty-First Century: Why (Almost) Everything We Are Told about Business Is Wrong by Kay, John

The Corporation in the Twenty-First Century: Why (Almost) Everything We Are Told about Business Is Wrong

$53.96
The Corporation in the Twenty-First Century: Why (Almost) Everything We Are Told about Business Is Wrong by Kay, John

The Corporation in the Twenty-First Century: Why (Almost) Everything We Are Told about Business Is Wrong

$53.96
Author: John Kay
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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A radical reappraisal of the nature and activities of business--what it is for and how it works

"A characteristically acerbic analysis of the archetypal organisational unit of capitalism."--Andrew Hill, Financial Times, "Best Books of 2024: Business"

Shortlisted for the 2024 Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year Award

In the world of Adam Smith and Karl Marx, capitalists built and controlled mills and factories. That relationship between capital and labor continued in the automobile assembly lines and petrochemical plants of the twentieth century.

But no longer: products and production have dematerialized. The goods and services provided by the leading companies of the twenty-first century appear on your screen, fit in your pocket, or occupy your head. Ownership of the means of production is a redundant concept. Workers are the means of production; increasingly, they take the plant home. Capital is a service bought from a specialist supplier with little influence over customer businesses. The professional managers who run modern corporations do not exert authority because they are wealthy; they are wealthy because they exert authority.

John Kay's incisive overhaul of our ideas about business redefines our understanding of successful commercial activity and the corporation--and describes how we have come to "love the product" as we "hate the producer." This is a brilliant and original work from one of the greatest economists.

Author: John Kay
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 01/07/2025
Pages: 448
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.75lbs
Size: 9.40h x 6.40w x 1.40d
ISBN: 9780300280197


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 11/25/2024

About the Author
Sir John Kay, fellow of St John's College, Oxford, has a distinguished career in academia, business, and finance. His writing, which includes the best-selling Other People's Money and a regular column for the Financial Times, has been recognized by numerous awards.
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