The Modern Corporation And Private Property (Later Printing, 1940)

Berle, Adolf A., Jr., And Gardiner C. Means

Edité par Macmillan And Co., 1940

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Xiii, 396 Pp. Red Cloth, Gilt. Thirteenth Printing, 1940. Fine, Bright And Clean Except Ownership Names And A Few Pencil Notes On Front Endpapers. Dust Jacket Price Clipped, Wear. Per Wikipedia, Adolf Augustus Berle Jr. (1895 ?1971) Was An American Lawyer, Educator, Writer, And Diplomat. At Age 21, He Became The Second Youngest Graduate Of Harvard Law School In The School's History, Behind Only Louis Brandeis. Upon Graduation Berle Joined The Us Military. His First Assignment As An Intelligence Officer Was To Assist In Increasing Sugar Production In The Dominican Republic By Working Out Property And Contractual Conflicts Among Rural Landowners. Berle Became A Member Of The American Delegation To The Paris Peace Conference, Advocating For Smaller Nations' Rights Of Self-Determination. In 1919, Became A Member Of The Law Firm Of Berle, Berle And Brunner. Berle Became A Professor Of Corporate Law At Columbia Law School In 1927 And Remained On The Faculty Until Retiring In 1964. He Is Best Known For His Groundbreaking Work In Corporate Governance That He Co-Authored, With Economist Gardiner Means, The Modern Corporation And Private Property. It Is The Most Quoted Text In Corporate Governance Studies. Berle And Means Showed That The Means Of Production In The Us Economy Were Highly Concentrated In The Hands Of The Largest 200 Corporations, And Within The Large Corporations, Managers Controlled Firms Despite Shareholders' Formal Ownership. Berle Theorized That The Facts Of Economic Concentration Meant That The Effects Of Competitive-Price Theory Were Largely Mythical. Berle Argued For Government Regulation And Became Identified With The School Of Business Statesmanship, Which Advocated That Corporate Leadership Accept (And Theorized That They Had, To A Great Extent, Already Accepted) That They Must Fulfill Responsibilities Toward Society In Addition To Their Traditional Responsibilities Toward Shareholders, Which Finally Received Some Mainstream Acceptance In The 21St Century. Corporate Law Should Reflect This New Reality, He Wrote. Berle Was An Original Member Of Franklin D. Roosevelt's "Brain Trust", A Group Of Advisers Who Developed Policy Recommendations. Berle Became A Key Consultant In The Successful Mayoral Election Campaign Of Reformer Fiorello Laguardia. From 1934 To 1938, Berle Managed The City's Fiscal Affairs As Its Last Chamberlain. In 1939, Berle Became An Early Member Of The National Lawyers Guild (Nlg). From 1938 To 1944, Berle Was Assistant Secretary Of State For Latin American Affairs. Throughout The Roosevelt Administration, Berle Consulted On Important International And Industrial New Deal Projects. Outside Of Latin America, Berle Argued "That Control Of The Incomparable Energy Reserves Of The Middle East Would Yield 'Substantial Control Of The World.? By 1941, Berle Had Charge Of The Intelligence Activities In The State Department, Working With The Fbi In Latin America And The Oss In Europe. Berle Became Entangled In Incessant Turf Wars Among Intelligence Agencies. In 1943, Berle's Duties In The State Department Involved Political Supervision Of The Various Clandestine Activities Necessitated By The War. In 1944 He Was Reassigned To Take Charge Of Negotiation With The Allies Regarding A Postwar Commercial Aviation Agreement. Berle Also Was A Major Architect In The Development Of Federal Farm And Home Owners' Mortgage Programs And In The Expansion Of The Reconstruction Finance Corporation. After The War, Berle Served As Ambassador To Brazil From 1945 To 1946. Berle Was A Founding Member Of The Liberal Party Of New York. For Nearly A Decade, Berle Served As Chairman Of The Liberal Party. Berle Briefly Returned To Government Service For The First Half Of 1961, Serving Under President John F. Kennedy As Head Of An Interdepartmental Task Force On Latin American Affairs. During That Time, He Was Primarily Involved In Forming The Us Response To A Newly Communist Cuba, Which Included The Failed Bay Of Pigs Invasion.

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• Titre: The Modern Corporation And Private Property (Later Printing, 1940)
• Éditeur: Macmillan And Co.
• Date de parution: 1940
• Langue: anglais
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: 1st Edition
• Impression: Reprint
• État de l'article: Fine
• État de la jaquette: Very Good
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Economics and Business