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...Alvin S. Johnson Copyright © 1910 by Duke University Press 1910 The Incidence of the Federal Corporation Tax By Alvin S. Johnson Professor of Economics in the University of Texas From the viewpoint of the financier, the provision for the taxa­ tion of corporations, incorporated as section 38...

...Joel G. Colton French Corporative Theory, 1789-1948: A Chapter in the History of Ideas . By Elbow Matthew H. . New York : Columbia University Press , 1953 . Pp. 222 . $3.75 . Copyright © 1954 by Duke University Press 1954 426 The South Atlantic Quarterly ticularly interesting...

...Eric Cheyfitz In the first part of this essay, I sketch some of the material conditions that comprise the contemporary corporate university: a job market dominated by contingent labor (non-tenure-track positions) and increasingly by part-time labor; the cooptation of links between scholarship...

...William Egginton Duke University Press 2007 William Egginton The Corporeal Image and the New ​ World Baroque ​In practically all attempts to theorize the baroque, the same dilemma is encountered: when we use...

... in a context of little or no access to state health care. Through the lens of HIV management, the article considers what happens when human care and welfare is refracted through the prism of corporate managerialism, shareholder value, and, more immediately, the relationship between workers and capital...

...Sneja Gunew 2002 by Duke University Press 2002 Sneja Gunew Technologies of the Self: Corporeal Affects of English To move past speaking foreign words to taking them...

...Rosemary J. Coombe; Andrew Herman 2002 by Duke University Press 2002 Rosemary J. Coombe Andrew Herman Culture Wars on the Net: Intellectual Property and Corporate Propriety...

...Yahya M. Madra; Sedat Yılmaz In this story of rise and (impending) fall, the quandary to be explored is how Erdoğan’s Gramscian “passive revolution” has turned into a Schmittian “sovereign dictatorship.” This conjunctural intervention highlights how Erdoğan’s vision of “corporate sovereignty...

...), such as New York’s Empire State Development Corporation, are authorized to issue debt backed by tax dollars. There are tens of thousands of such entities across the United States, a “shadow government” not accountable to voters. PAs operate based on a corporate model in which overleveraged holdings are hidden...

...Zine Magubane This essay examines the circuits of knowledge production that made comparisons between poor whites in the United States and South Africa pertinent and possible. It focuses on a five-volume study funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York. The study, commissioned in the late 1920s...

...Teresa Shewry Corporations and states are positioning the immensely deep waters and undersea lands of the Pacific Ocean as frontiers that are only just becoming known and important through their efforts to extract fossil fuels, copper, gold, and silver, among other materials. Despite...

... forces. With the active involvement of corporate partners, administrations are striving to commercialize, vocationalize, and militarize both curriculum and student culture itself. Furthermore, the role of higher education in sharply intensified exploitation means that we have to ask the same question...

... by such rethinking of the relationship of the public to academic freedom than by the current attempts to refine the professoriate's position in the corporate hierarchy of the university. © 2009 Duke University Press 2009 Samuel P. Nelson and Catherine Prendergast Murderabilia Inc.: Where the First Amendment...

... “rational and maximizing” in the present cultural-capital economy of university administration, teaching, and research. In short, this essay argues that it's the practice of tenure, rather than the idea of academic freedom, that needs to be expanded, affirmed, or saved in the context of the corporate...

... of multinational knowledge capital as it roams around the globe in search of the cheapest locations and highest returns. How we think about academic freedom also needs to take account of the increasing crossover between universities and knowledge corporations as they mutate into species more adaptable to the land...

...Heather Gautney Occupy Wall Street (OWS) is part of an ongoing series of pro-democracy protests throughout the United States against alarming trends in social inequality, high rates of home foreclosure and unemployment, and the excessive influence of corporate and financial interests on government...

.... The backlash is noteworthy because it often perpetuates problematic notions of personal freedom, champions self-defeating stoicism, and absolves corporations from responsibility for the consequences of their actions. This essay focuses on three major examples: smoking regulations, bans on foods containing...

... to alternative and critical conceptions of intellectual work that have, in the present conjuncture, become dissenting accounts of value. At the same time, we note the extent to which assertions about what constitutes radical thought are consistent with the logic of corporations and the mainstream media, all...

..., at the very least, by interrelations between multinational corporate interests, the local generic drug industry, neoliberal patient consumers, marginalized experimental subjects of clinical trials, and global civil society advocates for access to essential medicines. My argument is that the constitutive state...

... Kong–based activist labor organization Students and Scholars against Corporate Misbehavior, a coalition of environmental organizations headquartered in Beijing, and reporting by journalists, the essay shows how Apple was forced to go public about the myriad environmental, health, and labor problems...