Studies in the Corporate Structure

This will be a 6 week course and workshop studying the corporate structure, what it is, how it got the way it is, and how our language and experience dealing with capitalism doesn't equip us for even perceiving let along contesting the corporate structure and its domination of our societies and politics. Topics will include the structure of securities markets, corporate debt, the relation between the two, the ability of the corporations to control electoral political institutions, the growth of the multinational corporation out of World War II and the Cold War, the division of the global economy into two, a financial economy and a productive economy, with the former dominating the latter, the differences between the corporate structure and traditional capitalism, and why the corporate structure is so much more murderous and despoliative than traditional capitalism. Contact me for a syllabus.