A mugger to a stranger, "Give me your wallet or I will beatyou to pulp!" It is a crime. An employer says to a worker: "Adding lung-saving ventilationwill reduce my profit. Give me back some of your wages and I willlet you keep your lungs!" This is not a crime. Our assumptions about the world condition us to see thesesituations as legally different from one another. But what if we, the critics of corporate capitalism, instead insisted on takingthe spirit of law, rather than its letter, seriously? It would then bepossible to describe many of the daily practices of capitalists andtheir corporations as criminal in nature, even if not always criminalby the letter and formality of law. In Capitalism: A Crime Story, Harry Glasbeek makes the casethat if the rules and doctrines of liberal law were applied as theyshould be according to law's own pronouncements and methodology, corporate capitalism would be much harder to defend. | Capitalism: A Crime Story by Harry Glasbeek, Paperback | Indigo Chapters