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03/04/2019


Ideas

Conventional Companies as Private Governments

By Elizabeth Anderson, University of Michigan

(Editor’s note: The following is an excerpt from Elizabeth Anderson’s remarkable book Private Government: How Employers Rule Our Lives (and Why We Don’t Talk about It, published in 2017 by Princeton University Press. It’s headlined “communist dictatorships in our midst.” )

Imagine a government that assigns almost everyone a superior whom they must obey. Although superiors give most  ...

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