For Profit

Brilliantly conceived and enlightening at every turn, For Profit is a thrilling history of an institution that has shaped all our lives - for better and for worse – Lawrence Wright, author of ‘The Plague Year’In this lively and informativehistory of the corporation, William Magnuson shows that corporations were born to serve the public interest-only to be used and abused time and again to maximize profits for shareholders and executives. A must-read for any student of the world’s most influential form of economic organization – Adam Winkler, author of ‘We the Corporations’A magnificent history of corporations … Private enterprises have produced some of humankind’s greatest achievements. But often the most dazzling overstep the mark, leaving a trail of debris and distrust behind them – The EconomistI can pay Magnuson no higher compliment than to say that For Profit is a book I would be proud to have written – Martin Vander Weyer, The SpectatorA historical tour de force – Bloomberg OpinionCorporations have a lengthy and valuable history as social institutions … The book makes a useful contribution to a fundamental debate – Financial Times

William Magnuson is an associate professor at Texas A&M Law School. Previously he taught law at Harvard, worked as an associate in Sullivan & Cromwell, and as a journalist in the Rome bureau of the Washington Post. He is the author of Blockchain Democracy: Technology, Law and the Rule of the Crowd, and has written for numerous leading publications including Harvard Business Law Review, Stanford Journal of Law, Business and Finance, and the Wall Street Journal.

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