In Defense of the Corporation

In Defense of the Corporation is a nonfiction book by the business historian Robert Hessen. It was published by the Hoover Institution Press in 1979. In the book, Hessen defends the corporation as a legitimate institution against criticisms leveled by Ralph Nader and Mark J. Green in their co-written books Corporate Power in America (1973) and Taming the Giant Corporation (1976).

Reviews

Academic journals reviewing In Defense of the Corporation include the Academy of Management Review,^[1] American Business Law Journal,^[2] The Bell Journal of Economics,^[3] Business History Review,^[4] Columbia Law Review,^[5] Journal of Economic Literature,^[6] Modern Age,^[7] Public Choice,^[8] Southern Economic Journal,^[9] the UMKC Law Review,^[10] and the University of Miami Law Review.^[11] The book was also reviewed in Barron's,^[12] Human Events,^[13] The New York Times,^[14] Reason,^[15] and Worldview.^[16]