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Corporations are often so focused on making short-term profits for their stockholders that they behave in ways that adversely affect their employees, the environment, consumers, American politics, and even the long-term well-being of the corporation, says Lawrence Mitchell in this provocative book. This is a significant issue not only in the United States but also in the world, for many countries are beginning to emulate the American model of corporate governance. Mitchell criticizes this emphasis on profit maximization and the corporate legal structure that encourages it, and he offers concrete proposals to bring about more socially responsible corporate behavior. Mitchell declares that managers should be freed from the legal and structural constraints that make it difficult for them to exercise ordinary moral judgment and be held accountable for their actions. He suggests, for example, that earnings reports be required annually rather than quarterly, that the capital gains tax be increased on stocks held for fewer than thirty days, and that elections of corporate boards of directors be held every five years rather than every year. Mitchell places the problem of corporate irresponsibility within the broader context of American life and demonstrates the extent to which contemporary corporate behavior represents a corruption of our cherished liberal values of personal freedom and individuality..
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It is commonly understood that in its focus on rights and obligations law is centrally concerned with organising responsibility. In defining how obligations are created, in contract or property law, say, or imposed, as in tort, public, or criminal law, law and legal institutions are usually seen as society’s key mode of asserting and defining the content and scope of responsibilities.

This book takes the converse view: legal institutions are centrally involved in organising irresponsibility. Particularly with respect to the production of large-scale harms – including extensive human rights violations, forms of colonialism, or environmental or nuclear devastation – and in opposition to conventional understandings of responsibility in law, morality and politics, the book provides a detailed analysis of the ways in which legal institutions – their practices, concepts, and categories – themselves operate as much to deflect responsibility for harms suffered as they do to acknowledge them.

Drawing on a series of case studies from local, national, and global concerns the book analyses how law facilitates dispersals and disavowals of responsibility, and it shows how it does so in consistent and patterned ways. In assessing how this ‘organised irresponsibility’ operates, and what its consequences are for both legal analysis and society generally, a thoroughgoing re-evaluation of law’s methods, operation, and consequences is required. At stake is nothing less than a fundamental re-assessment of the role of modern law in the production and legitimation of human suffering.

This innovative and interdisciplinary book provides a sustained challenge to conventional thinking about law and legal institutions. It will be of major interest to those working in law, political and legal theory, sociology and moral philosophy.

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Chris Vitiello's second book matches conversational language with the compositional processes of a working poet dealing with the most pressing--and most quotidian--of human problems .
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Teachers fail their students by allowing students who are searching for responsibility to behave irresponsibility Teachers allow irresponsible behavior by lowering standards, often in the name of equity. Similarly, managers often let their employees off the hook by not expecting their best work. Worse, employees are then rewarded for the substandard work they perform. Most people know when they are not doing their best work, and they would strive to excel if their managers held them accountable for their performance. The challenge to managers is to set standards, hold people to those standards, and reward accomplishment of the standards. Quality occurs in the details, and highly motivated people attend to the details. Managers who let their employees off the hook do a disservice to their employees and their organizations.

This digital document is an article from Healthcare Financial Management, most recently published by Healthcare Financial Management Association on February 28, 2003. The length of the article is 1027 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

Citation Details
Title: We teach 'Irresponsibility 101." What do you teach?
Author: Jim Summers
Publication:Healthcare Financial Management (Feature)
Date: February 28, 2003
Publisher: Healthcare Financial Management Association
Volume: 57 Issue: 2 Page: 82-84

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