The only thing good about the movie, The Corporation
Frankly, I thought the movie, The Corporation, was unabashedly abysmal. It was a childish caricature, exhibiting no understanding by the filmmakers (or most of the interviewees) of the law, economics, or nature of corporations–to say nothing of capitalism.  The movie is unsophisticated, anti-capitalist tripe. See Seth Weinberger’s review of the movie from the journal Political Communication for the longer version of this analysis.Â
That said, the filmmakers have just provided me–and now you–with one of the most remarkable three minutes of video footage I’ve ever seen: The Milton Friedman Choir.Â
Milton Friedman on corporations says,
Corporations have no social duty
Except to those who own their stock.
Hat tip:Â Henry Manne.
Couldn’t agree more. I said much the same:
http://competitivenotes.blogspot.com/2007/02/corporation.html
Comment by cljo — May 17, 2007 @ 9:08 am
Pathetic. Why does this kind of tripe get any publicity at all? The movie was nothing more than sophomoric name-calling and disingenuous posturing, and this is just more of the same.
Comment by Seth Weinberger — May 17, 2007 @ 9:37 am
I much preferred “The Office.”
Actually, I preferred some really horrible films to “The Corporation.” I actually liked “The Office.”
Comment by M. Hodak — May 19, 2007 @ 10:17 pm