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This course explores the importance of the corporation in America’s economic and political history since the mid-eighteenth century. The corporation operated as a social entity and interacted with – and as an agent of – government.
Over the course of the semester, students will gain an understanding of how the institutional form of the corporation was changed by economics, mangers, and laws, to respond to the moral imperatives of the culture, and to maximize profits and gains in the American economy. Instead of being a institutionally constant entity spanning periods of history, the corporation is a product of specific, secular historical forces. It is a moving target.