History Lesson: The Corporation, Part 3 of 3
The public corporation is under attack in America today. The regulatory burden is ever increasing: boards and CEOs are constantly harassed over wide-ranging issues from CEO pay to options "backdating," and the media continues to portray corporate America as a cesspool of corruption. The expenses and risks of being a public corporation are now so great that an unprecedented number of companies are choosing to "go private."
In this course, Dr. Brook discusses the history and economics behind the rise of the modern corporation, explaining how this form of business organization made possible new heights of wealth creation. He explains why the corporation, despite its productive virtues, has been attacked as illegitimate and immoral since its inception. Finally, he discusses the popular paradigm of "corporate social responsibility" and contrasts it with the proper corporate goal of shareholder wealth maximization.
This course was recorded at the
2007 Objectivist Summer Conference in Telluride, CO.
Service:
Spreaker
Publshed on:
Jul 08, 2007
Duration:
01:28:52
Channels
Objectivist Conference Presentations
brief recap and self-interest in managing companies
00:00
to
17:09
17.2 minutes
hostile takeovers & stock options
17:10
to
38:34
21.4 minutes
separation of ownership and control
38:35
to
39:14
39 seconds
Stock Market Bubbles and other bubbles
39:15
to
51:49
12.6 minutes
Q: Under laissez-faire, would bubbles occur and what about insider trading?
51:50
to
55:39
3.8 minutes
CEO reimbursement options
55:40
to
01:06:49
11.2 minutes
Empirical evidence on CEO pay
01:06:50
to
01:16:59
10.2 minutes
Private equity and buyouts and being a public company under Sarbanes-Oxley
01:17:00
to
01:23:59
7.0 minutes
the future under the status quo vs. Objectivism future
01:24:00
to
N/A
4.9 minutes