| Big business - 1941 - 1496 pages
...function of legislation to do so. His opinion ran in part as follows:16 Through size, corporations * * * have become an institution — an institution which...private corporations are sometimes able to dominate the State. The typical business corporation ofthe last century, owned by a small group of individuals,... | |
| Big business - 1941 - 1400 pages
...function of legislation to do so. His opinion ran in part as follows:15 Through size, corporations * * * have become an institution — an institution which...private corporations are sometimes able to dominate the State. The typical business corporation of the last century, owned by a small group of individuals,... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Temporary National Economic Committee - 1940 - 446 pages
...function of legislation to do so. His opinion ran in part as follows:15 Through size, corporations * * * have become an institution — an institution which...such concentration of economic power that so-called Erivate corporations are sometimes able to dominate the State. The typical usiness corporation of the... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Small Business - Small business - 1957 - 1668 pages
...powers once exercised by stockholders. They show that size alone has given to the giant corporation a social significance not attached ordinarily to smaller...enterprise. Through size corporations, once merely efficient tools 97385— 5T— pt. 1 36 employed by individuals in the conduct of private business,... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means - Taxation - 1958 - 1320 pages
...themselves. These writers show that size alone has given to the gigantic corporations of the 20th century, a social significance not attached ordinarily to smaller units of private enterprise, upon which this Nation was built. Through size alone corporations once were merely tools employed by... | |
| Peter H. Irons - History - 1993 - 376 pages
...In his opinion, Brandéis flayed corporate monopoly as "the negation of industrial democracy" and as "an institution which has brought such concentration...private corporations are sometimes able to dominate the State." Had monopoly control, he asked, created in fact a "corporate system" of government which was... | |
| Charles C. Heckscher - Business & Economics - 1996 - 340 pages
...rule the state or the state the corporation?" Forty years later Justice Brandeis was more emphatic: Through size, corporations, once merely an efficient...in the conduct of private business, have become an institution—an institution which has brought such concentration of economic power that so-called... | |
| David L. Sills, Robert King Merton - Social Science - 2000 - 466 pages
...stockholders — results not designed by the States and long unsuspected. They show that size alone gives to giant corporations a social significance...private corporations are sometimes able to dominate the State. . . Such is the Frankenstein monster which States have created by their corporation laws. Louis... | |
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