In Defense of the Corporation

Short description: 1975 nonfiction book by Robert Hessen

In Defense of the Corporation is a nonfiction book by the business historian Robert Hessen. It was published by the Hoover Institution Press in 1979. In the book, Hessen defends the corporation as a legitimate institution against criticisms leveled by Ralph Nader and Mark J. Green in their co-written books Corporate Power in America (1973) and Taming the Giant Corporation (1976).

## Reviews

Academic journals reviewing In Defense of the Corporation include the Academy of Management Review,[1] American Business Law Journal,[2] The Bell Journal of Economics,[3] Business History Review,[4] Columbia Law Review,[5] Journal of Economic Literature,[6] Modern Age,[7] Public Choice,[8] Southern Economic Journal,[9] the UMKC Law Review,[10] and the University of Miami Law Review.[11] The book was also reviewed in Barron's,[12] Human Events,[13] The New York Times,[14] Reason,[15] and Worldview.[16]

## References

1. ↑ Locke, Edwin A. (July 1979). "Review". Academy of Management Review 4 (3): 475–477.
2. ↑ Kempin, Frederick G. Jr (Spring 1980). "Book Reviews: In Defense of the Corporation". American Business Law Journal 18 (1): 123–129. doi:10.1111/j.1744-1714.1980.tb00034.x. https://heinonline.org/hol-cgi-bin/get_pdf.cgi?handle=hein.journals/ambuslj18&section=17.
3. ↑ Preston, Lee E. (Autumn 1979). "Review: Vogel's Lobbying the Corporation, Winter's Government and the Corporation, and Hessen's In Defense of the Corporation". The Bell Journal of Economics 10 (2): 733–736. doi:10.2307/3003366.
4. ↑ Kemmerer, Donald L. (Autumn 1979). "Review". Business History Review 53 (3): 395–396. doi:10.2307/3114094.
5. ↑ Werner, Walter (March 1979). "Book Review". Columbia Law Review 79 (2): 401–403.
6. ↑ Goodman, John C. (March 1980). "[Review of In Defense of the Corporation]". Journal of Economic Literature 18 (1): 155–156.
7. ↑ Peterson, William H.  (Spring 1980). "The Market Society". Modern Age 24 (2): 206–207. https://www.proquest.com/openview/710b7262c3a30763508389a1a0f16d57/1.
8. ↑ Baysinger, Barry D. (1981). "Review". Public Choice 36 (1): 201–204.
9. ↑ Auster, Richard D. (April 1980). "[Review of In Defense of the Corporation]". Southern Economic Journal 46 (4): 1250–1251.
10. ↑ Downs, Robert C. (Spring 1980). "Book Review: Hessen: In Defense of the Corporation". UMKC Law Review 48 (3): 502–505. https://heinonline.org/hol-cgi-bin/get_pdf.cgi?handle=hein.journals/umkc48&section=32.
11. ↑ Manne, Henry G. (September 1979). "Book Review: Hessen: In Defense of the Corporation". University of Miami Law Review 33 (5): 1649–1655. https://repository.law.miami.edu/umlr/vol33/iss5/13.
12. ↑ Kelley, David (April 23, 1979). "Barron's on Books". Barron's 59 (17): p. 55. ProQuest 350673630. https://www.proquest.com/docview/350673630.
13. ↑ "In Defense Of the Corporation (Book Review)". Human Events 39 (40): p. 10. October 6, 1979. ProQuest 1310009374. https://www.proquest.com/docview/1310009374.
14. ↑ Goldstein, Tom (July 14, 1979). "Corporations and the State". The New York Times: p. D4. https://www.nytimes.com/1979/07/13/archives/business-and-the-law-corporations-and-the-state-plan-to-list.html.
15. ↑ Armentano, D. T. (July 1979). "Books: In Defense of the Corporation". Reason: 45–46. https://reason.com/1979/07/01/in-defense-of-the-corporation/.
16. ↑ "Briefly Noted". Worldview 22 (7–8): 56. July–August 1979. https://carnegiecouncil-media.storage.googleapis.com/files/v22_i007-008_a020.pdf.

## External links

* In Defense of the Corporation at the Internet Archive

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