Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Corporations and American Democracy: An Introduction 1
5. I: Corporate Origins
6. 1. Early American Corporations and the State 37
7. 2. Corporations and Organizations in the United States aft er 1840 74
8. II: The Turn to Regulation
9. 3. The Dissociation of Incorporation and Regulation in the Progressive Era and the New Deal 109
10. 4. The Public Utility Idea and the Origins of Modern Business Regulation 139
11. 5. Corporate Taxation and the Regulation of Early Twentieth- Century American Business 177
12. III: The Changing Corporate Form
13. 6. From Fiscal Triangle to Passing Th rough: Rise of the Nonprofit Corporation 213
14. 7. The Supreme Court’s View of Corporate Rights: Two Centuries of Evolution and Controversy 245
15. 8 Corporations and the Fourteenth Amendment 286
16. IV: Modern Corporate Challenges
17. 9. Two Cheers for Vertical Integration: Corporate Governance in a World of Global Supply Chains 329
18. 10. Citizens United, Personhood, and the Corporation in Politics 359
19. Notes 389
20. Acknowledgments 493
21. Contributors 495
22. Index 497