Jerry Mander | The Sun Magazine

Jerry Mander

Jerry Mander is a cofounder and chair of the International Forum on Globalization, an organization of activists opposed to the global economy. He lives in San Francisco.

— From December 1997
Essays, Memoirs, & True Stories

The Rules Of Corporate Behavior

Most people are familiar with the destructive behavior of corporations: closing factories and exporting jobs; dumping toxic waste; devastating the environment; abandoning communities for “free-trade zones,” where environmental and social laws are lax. But few understand why corporations behave this way.

December 1997
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