THE CORPORATION

The Corporation puts today’s most powerful institution at the center of inquiry. It explores its history and rise to dominance, and it reveals the far-reaching implications of the fact that, legally, a corporation is deemed “a person”. But what kind of person is it? After point-by-point analysis, The Corporation delivers a disturbing diagnosis: the institutional embodiment of laissez-faire capitalism fully meets the diagnostic criteria of a psychopath. As the film considers the work and values of the flesh and blood people who comprise the corporate person, questions arise. What are the consequences – for human beings, the environment, democracy, and the very survival of our planet – of granting immense power to an institution that is structurally amoral, and whose prime directive is merely to create wealth for shareholders?