companies have also here in Germany the status of legal person. In other words, they are granted in many respects the rights of a person. But how did it happen? What conclusions does this have? And above all, what kind Person would be such a company if it would be, in fact, a human being? On the basis of modern corporate history and the DSM-IV, an established American manual for diagnosing mental illness, the Canadian legal scholar Joel Bakan Mark Achbar and wanted along with Jennifer Abbott these questions get to the bottom. The result is an award-winning documentary that illustrates the absurdity of properties of anonymous stock corporation such as Monsanto, Bechtel, IBM impressive and raises the new question, endure as long as our culture, this form of ruthless capitalism nor will systematically. Although already released in 2003, he has none of its relevance lost.
"The Corporation" is in the original English version with German subtitles including on Google Video available:
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