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Article

6 May 2004

Author:
The Economist

The lunatic you work for: If the corporation were a person, would that person be a psychopath?

...People on both sides of the globalisation debate should pay attention. Unlike much of the soggy thinking peddled by too many anti-globalisers, “The Corporation” [award-winning documentary film] is a surprisingly rational and coherent attack on capitalism's most important institution...The main message of the film is that, through their psychopathic pursuit of profit, firms make good people do bad things.