Joel Bakan, author / producer of "The Corporation," joins Democracy Nerd to discuss his follow-up "The New Corporation: How "Good" Corporations Are Bad For Democracy." Bakan explains how despite adopting efforts to portray themselves as good corporate citizens, corporations continue to operate from a single goal of maximizing shareholder profit. As a result, corporations portray themselves as the savior to fix society's problems, helping undermine global democracy. Can corporations be trusted to help fix the problems they helped create?
The New Corporation: How "Good" Corporations Are Bad For Democracy