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		<dc:creator>Men's Health</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 12:30:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<dc:creator>Caron Chim</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 08:15:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<dc:creator>Mrs.Belinda Johnson</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 02:35:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Dobrovolskiy prokopiy</title>
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		<dc:creator>Dobrovolskiy prokopiy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2011 01:37:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<dc:creator>alexey lapshin</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 May 2011 10:19:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Jesse</title>
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		<dc:creator>Jesse</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Aug 2010 06:46:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>So, with unlimited mobility and no reasonable system of global liability, I&#039;m quite unclear on how a corporation (and more specifically the key decision makers within a corporation), would be interested, or indeed even capable of meaningful self-regulation.

Under the systems you propose, it is an entirely reasonable proposition for a CEO to employ entirely unsound practices in any number of fields with the expectation that he will in the short term enrich himself and his allies, and disengage from the corporate entity itself before the proverbial crows come home to roost.

To put a colorful spin upon the matter, it would be as if some evil spirit had possessed my body, used it to commit murder, and then departed before the police came to take custody of me.

And yet, this is precisely how our entire corporate system functions on a day to day basis - how else then are we to manage a larger society (or indeed, protect corporations themselves from such forms of abuse) other than regulation?

To my eye our legal systems have proven woefully inadequate, generally incapable of even identifying malefactors until years after the damage is done, much less bringing them to account for their actions, and indeed, I don&#039;t see any magical way of improving them to do so.

Shareholders can be held to account of course, but in our current system they too are often very nearly powerless to affect decision making, so the point there is mainly collective vindictiveness rather than effective liability.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So, with unlimited mobility and no reasonable system of global liability, I&#8217;m quite unclear on how a corporation (and more specifically the key decision makers within a corporation), would be interested, or indeed even capable of meaningful self-regulation.</p>
<p>Under the systems you propose, it is an entirely reasonable proposition for a CEO to employ entirely unsound practices in any number of fields with the expectation that he will in the short term enrich himself and his allies, and disengage from the corporate entity itself before the proverbial crows come home to roost.</p>
<p>To put a colorful spin upon the matter, it would be as if some evil spirit had possessed my body, used it to commit murder, and then departed before the police came to take custody of me.</p>
<p>And yet, this is precisely how our entire corporate system functions on a day to day basis &#8211; how else then are we to manage a larger society (or indeed, protect corporations themselves from such forms of abuse) other than regulation?</p>
<p>To my eye our legal systems have proven woefully inadequate, generally incapable of even identifying malefactors until years after the damage is done, much less bringing them to account for their actions, and indeed, I don&#8217;t see any magical way of improving them to do so.</p>
<p>Shareholders can be held to account of course, but in our current system they too are often very nearly powerless to affect decision making, so the point there is mainly collective vindictiveness rather than effective liability.</p>
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		<title>By: yankee bastards - Mutha Fuckin' Magic Up In This Bitch</title>
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		<dc:creator>yankee bastards - Mutha Fuckin' Magic Up In This Bitch</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jul 2010 02:33:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] between government and established politically connected firms is to blame. (For more, see Self-Regulation in the Corporate State: The BP Spill.)  But Ulstertalbot, certainly you must realize that the dumbshits who join statist murder gangs [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] between government and established politically connected firms is to blame. (For more, see Self-Regulation in the Corporate State: The BP Spill.)  But Ulstertalbot, certainly you must realize that the dumbshits who join statist murder gangs [...]</p>
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		<title>By: Blagnet.net &#187; Obama regime&#8217;s refusal of Dutch help for the BP oil spill</title>
		<link>http://www.thefreemanonline.org/columns/tgif/bp-spill/comment-page-1/#comment-28706</link>
		<dc:creator>Blagnet.net &#187; Obama regime&#8217;s refusal of Dutch help for the BP oil spill</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jul 2010 01:21:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] fairly fast and effective ways to mitigate an oil-spill catastrophe. And while it&#8217;s true, as Sheldon Richman reminds us, that environmental catastrophes are more accurately attributed to government failure than market [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] fairly fast and effective ways to mitigate an oil-spill catastrophe. And while it&#8217;s true, as Sheldon Richman reminds us, that environmental catastrophes are more accurately attributed to government failure than market [...]</p>
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		<title>By: Free Markets, Incentives, and Oil Spills &#124; Whiskey and Car Keys</title>
		<link>http://www.thefreemanonline.org/columns/tgif/bp-spill/comment-page-1/#comment-28686</link>
		<dc:creator>Free Markets, Incentives, and Oil Spills &#124; Whiskey and Car Keys</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 13:57:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] This is exactly the kind of idiocy that passes for wit inside the beltway. Libertarians often get a rap for being corporate shills, but there&#8217;s a reason we&#8217;re free-marketers, not Corporationists. Sheldon Richman explains: [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] This is exactly the kind of idiocy that passes for wit inside the beltway. Libertarians often get a rap for being corporate shills, but there&#8217;s a reason we&#8217;re free-marketers, not Corporationists. Sheldon Richman explains: [...]</p>
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