
The Corporation as Trinity
In Adolf Berle’s famous 1954 essay, “Corporate Capitalism and The City of God,” certain passages that once seemed musty and redolent of a bygone era are now eerily timely. Like current critics, Berle chides corporate leaders who think they can simply mind their own business, oblivious to larger social concerns. “For the fact seems to be that the really great corporat[e] managements have reached a position for the first time in their history in which they must consciously take account of philosophical considerations,” Berle wrote. “They must consider the kind of community in which they have faith, and which … Read more