corpocracy

It would be a class where entrepreneurship would replace the traditional subject of "corpocracy."

This has led to concerns that the economy has shifted too far in favor of capital, via a form of corporatism, corpocracy or neoliberalism.

Simplistic imperatives to make an extra widget or fine-tune the corpocracy will be as effective as the 1970's Whip Inflation Now (WIN) buttons.

If the corpocracy is to be tamed, and bosses held properly to account, ultimately the only sustainable solution is for institutional shareholders to properly carry out their responsibilities as owners.

He is the author of Corpocracy and The New Global Investors and, with Nell Minow, Watching the Watchers, Corporate Governance and Power & Accountability.

And so, I demanded of Kenny, even given worldwide improvement, what could you possibly say about the States, where health care, education, immigration, food, the environment, social services and more are all being strangled by forces of reaction and the corpocracy?

Mr. Nader and Mr. Buchanan, who agree on little else, have each asserted that the Republican and Democratic parties have effectively merged into a political corpocracy, in which both parties feed at the trough of big business campaign contributions and ignore the needs of ordinary citizens.

Timid Business Leaders In November 1986, Mr. Darman, who was then Deputy Treasury Secretary, made a speech accusing many big corporations of being a "corpocracy," which he described as a "tendency to be like the Government bureaucracy that corporate executives love to malign: bloated, risk-averse, inefficient and unimaginative."

The corpocracy at times seems equally obtuse, as when its leaders call for repeal of the provisions of the Sarbanes-Oxley law that make it easier for shareholders to rid themselves of underperforming directors, and require that directors be truly independent, rather than chums of the CEO, especially when serving on compensation committees.