• The Corporation in the Twenty-First Century

  • Why (almost) everything we are told about business is wrong
  • By: John Kay
  • Narrated by: Peter Wicks
  • Length: 10 hrs

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The Corporation in the Twenty-First Century

By: John Kay
Narrated by: Peter Wicks
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Publisher's summary

In the world of Adam Smith and Karl Marx, wealthy capitalists built and controlled mills and factories. That link from personal wealth to tangible capital to hierarchical managerial and political authority continued in the automobile assembly lines and petrochemical plants of the twentieth century.

But products and production have dematerialised. 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 working economists.

©2024 John Kay (P)2024 Profile Books Ltd

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