Corporate Power and Individual Freedom: Some General Analysis and Particular Reservations

The political sociology of the business corporation hardly soundspromising as a topic for popular, or even semi-popular, consumption.But in the last few years, a stream of more or lessscholarly literature on the subject has caught the fancy of thepublic in an astonishing way-some of it even rising to the dizzyheights of paperbackdom. Not all these works are in full agreement,nor are they identical in emphasis. They are close enoughtogether, however, to permit a composite to be drawn of their viewof the world of the big company and the individual