THE DIVINE RIGHT OF CAPITAL

Reviewed 9/01/2011

The Divine Right of Capital, by Marjorie Kelly

THE DIVINE RIGHT OF CAPITAL Dethroning the Corporate Aristocracy Marjorie Kelly William Greider (Fwd.) San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler, October 2001				Rating: 5.0 High
ISBN-13 978-1-57675-125-1
ISBN-10 1-57675-125-2	230pp.	HC/GSI	$24.95

Here is some information on citations from the book. I believe the first table lists every book to which she refers. Below that is a table of the legal cases she cites. Both tables have some gaps in them; I will be working on filling those as time permits.

Titles from Index (by page number)
2	Ralph Estes Tyranny of the Bottom Line: Why Corporations Make Good People Do Bad Things San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler, 1995
19	Whitaker Whitaker's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage, and Companionage London: Whitaker's, 1913
21	Arthur O. Lovejoy The Great Chain of Being: A Study of the History of an Idea Cambridge, NA: Harvard University Press, 1936
25	Edward Said Culture and Imperialism New York: Vintage Books, 1994
30	Gordon S. Wood The Radicalism of the American Revolution New York: Vintage Books, 1991
32	Alexis de Toqueville The Old Regime and the French Revolution New York: Anchor Books/Doubleday, 1983
35	Adolf Berle & Gardiner C. Means The Modern Corporation and Private Property New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 1991 [1932]
42-3	William Blackstone Commentaries on the Laws of England ???
45	Jeff Gates The Ownership Solution ???
61	Karl Popper The Open Society and its Enemies ???
64	Don Herzog Poisoning the Minds of the Lower Orders Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1998
72	Robert Anchor The Enlightenment Tradition Berkeley: University of California Press, 1967
73	Adam Smith The Wealth of Nations New York: The Modern Library, 2000
74	Eric Hobsbawm The Age of Extremes: A History of the World, 1914-1991 New York: Pantheon, 1994
74	Karl Polyani The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time Boston: Beacon Press, 1960 [1944]
84	Fernand Braudel The Wheels of Commerce: Civilization and Capitalism, 15th-18th Century Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992
88	Ernst Kantorowicz The King's Two Bodies: A Study in Medieval Political Theology Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1991
90	Daniel Yergin & Joseph Stanislaw The Commanding Heights: The Battle Between Government and Marketplace that is Remaking the Modern World New York: Touchstone Simon & Schuster, 1999
91	Francis Fukuyama The End of History and the Last Man New York: Free Press, 1992
98	Bernard Bailyn The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1967
110	Thomas Paine The Rights of Man ???
112	Richard Ashcraft Revolutionary Politics and Locke's Two Theories of Government ???
114	John Bates Clark Distribution of Wealth ???	Cited in Schrader, Corporation as Anomaly
131	Edward S. Mason (ed.) The Corporation in Modern Society New York: Atheneum, 1966
132	Georges Duby A History of Private Life Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1988
132	Matthew Josephson The Robber Barons: The Great American Capitalists, 1861-1901 New York: Harcourt Brace, 1934
146	D. K. Hurst Crisis and Renewal Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1995
152	Douglas McGregor The Human Side of Enterprise New York: McGraw-Hill, 1960
153	Robert Dahl A Preface to Economic Democracy Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985
160	Miles Rapoport Democracy Works ???	Book or organization?
132	Joyce Appleby Inheriting the Revolution: The First Generation of Americans Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2000
166	Jane J. Mansbridge Why We Lost the ERA Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986
171	Alexis de Toqueville Democracy in America New York: Vintage Books, 1990 [1835]
177	William Greider Who Will Tell the People?: The Betrayal of American Democracy ???
???	John Locke Two Treatises in [sic] the History of Government London: 1698	See: Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought
Titles from Endnotes (alphabetically by principal author)
N/A	Theo Aronson Crowns in Conflict: The Triumph and Tragedy of European Monarchy 1910-1918 Manchester, NH: Salem House, 1986
N/A	C.B.A. Behrens The Ancien Regime London: Thames & Hudson, 1967
N/A	Warren Bennis, Gretchen Spreitzer, Thomas Cummings (eds.) The Future of Leadership San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2001
N/A	Adolf A. Berle The 20th-Century Capitalist Revolution New York: Harcourt Brace, 1954
N/A	Paul Buhle Taking Care of Business: Samuel Gompers, George Meany, Lane Kirkland, and the Tragedy of American Labor New York: Monthly Review Press, 1999
N/A	John Bates Clark Essentials of Economic Theory New York: Macmillan, 1924 [1907]
N/A	R.H. Coase The Firm, the Market, and the Law Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988
N/A	Clifford Cobb, Ted Halstead & Jonathan Rowe For the Common Good: Redirecting the Economy toward Community, the Environment, and a Sustainable Future Boston: Beacon Press, 1989
N/A	Robert L. Cunningham (ed.) Liberty and the Rule of Law College Station: Texas A&M Press, 1979
N/A	Edwin Merrick Dodd American Business Corporations Until 1860 Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1983
N/A	Frank H. Easterbrook & Daniel R. Fischel The Economic Structure of Corporate Law Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1991
N/A	David Ellerman Property and Contract in Economics: The Case for Economic Democracy Oxford: Blackwell, 1992	see http://www.ellerman.org
N/A	John Fiske The American Revolution Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1891
N/A	Michael Foucault Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison New York: Vintage Books, 1975
N/A	R. Edward Freeman Strategic Management: A Shareholder Approach Boston: Pitman, 1984
N/A	Lawrence M. Friedman A History of American Law New York: Simon & Schuster, 1973
N/A	Lon L. Fuller Legal Fictions Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1983
N/A	G.W.F. Hagel (Leo Rauch, transl.) Introduction to the Philosophy of History Indianapolis: Hacket, 1988
N/A	David Halberstam The Children New York: Random House, 1998
N/A	Eldon S. Henderson Capital Expenditures in the Steel Industry, 1900 to 1953 New York: Arno Press, 1978
N/A	Christopher Hill Some Intellectual Consequences of the English Revolution Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1980
N/A	Eric Hobsbawm Uncommon People: Resistance, Rebellion, and Jazz New York: The New Press, 1998
N/A	Morton J. Horwitz The Transformation of American Law, 1780-1860 Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992	1st ed. also cited: Harvard University Press, 1977
N/A	Joseph B. James The Framing of the Fourteenth Amendment Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1965
N/A	Immanuel Kant (H. J. Paton, transl.) Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals New York: Harper & Row, 1956
N/A	Allen Kaufman, Lawrence Zacharais & Marvin Karson Managers vs. Owners: The Struggle for Corporate Control in American Democracy New York: Oxford University Press, 1995
N/A	David C. Korten The Post-Corporate World: Life After Capitalism San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler, 1999
N/A	David C. Korten When Corporations Rule the World San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler, 1995
N/A	Robert Lacey Aristocrats London: Hutchinson & Co., 1983
N/A	Earl Latham The Corporation in Modern Society New York: Atheneum, 1966
N/A	Andy Law Creative Company: How St. Luke's Became ETAOIN SHRDLU New York: Wiley, 1999	Get full subtitle
N/A	Lawrence Mishel, Jared Bernstein, & John Schmitt The State of Working America: 1996-97 Washington, DC: Economic Policy Institute, 1996	This is a yearly; 1997-1998 also cited.
N/A	James Morris Heaven's Command: An Imperial Progress London: Folio Society, 1992
N/A	Ralph Nader & Mark Green Corporate Power in America New York: Grossman Publishers, 1973
N/A	Thomas F. O'Boyle At Any Cost: Jack Welch, General Electric, and the Pursuit of Profit New York: Knopf, 1998
N/A	Robert Pollin & Stephanie Luce The Living Wage: Building a Fair Economy New York: The New Press, 1998
N/A	Jack Quarter Beyond the Bottom Line: Socially Innovative Business Owners Westport, CT: Quorum/Greenwood, 2000
N/A	George Rudé The French Revolution: Its Causes, its History, and its Legacy After 200 Years New York: Grove Press, 1998
N/A	Paul A. Samuelson Economics: An Introductory Analysis New York: McGraw-Hill, 1955
N/A	Paul A. Samuelson Economics: An Introductory Course New York: McGraw-Hill, 1970
N/A	David E. Schrader The Corporation as Anomaly Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993
N/A	Donald E. Schwartz (ed.) Commentaries on Corporate Structure and Governance: The ALI-ABA Symposiums, 1977-1978 1979
N/A	Ray Stringham Magna Carta: Fountainhead of Freedom Rochester, NY: Aqueduct Books, 1966
N/A	Frederick Strobel & Wallace Peterson The Coming Class War and How To Avoid it Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 1999
N/A	Michael Useem Investor Capitalism: How Money Managers are changing the Face of Corporate America New York: Basic Books, 1996
N/A	Marina Whitman New World, New Rules: The Changing Role of the American Corporation Cambridge, MA: Harvard Business School Press, 1999
N/A	Gordon S. Wood The Creation of the American Republic 1776-1787 New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1969
N/A	Staff (eds.) The People Shall Judge: Readings in the Formation of American Policy Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1949

LEGAL CITATIONS

Citation	Year	Description	Endnote
Bowoto v. Chevron	2000?	Nigerian troops, flown to Chevron's offshore oil rig in its helicopter, kill 2 people there.	212n46
Buckley v. Valeo	1976	Money is speech, thus campaign contributions are protected by first amendment.	160, 214n4
Dartmouth College	1819	Govt. cannot alter corporate charter or grant.	130
Dodge v. Ford Motor Co.	1919	Michigan Supreme Court: Primary duty of corporation is stockholder profit.	52-3, 95
Dodge v. Woolsey	1855	Eroded public responsibility of corporations.	129
Doe v. Unocal	1998	US District Court rules human rights abuses by foreigners (Burma) can be tried in U.S.	212n46
First National Bank of Boston v. Bellotti	1978	Corporate political speech is protected.	161, 215n7
Hale v. Hinkel	1906	Fourth Amendment protects corporations against unreasonable search and seizure.	164
Lochner v. New York	1905	Law to limit working hours invalid infringement of contract. (Eff. overruled during New Deal era)	130, 136
Munn v. Illinois	1877	SCOTUS rules public can regulate private property in which it has an interest.	136
Nebbia v. New York	1934	"Neither property rights nor contract rights are absolute."	137, 210-11n30
Richardson v. Buhl	18??	Nebraska Supreme Court opposed huge corporate wealth.	129
Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad Co.	1886	Corporations are persons.	90, 163, 203n23
United States v. Morton Salt	1950	Corporations do not have individual right of privacy.	164
Van Ness v. Pacard	1829	Landowner does not own house tenant built on landowner's property.	48
West Coast Hotel v. Parrish	1937	State minimum wage for women upheld by SCOTUS.	136
Measure F (Arcata, CA)	2000?	?	183
three-strikes-and-you're-out ordinance	1998	Wayne Township of Pennsylvania rules a corporation with 3 violations in 15 years cannot do business there.	176-77
pactum subjectionis	1200?	The pact between serfs and lord whereby the serfs gave up their political rights. Obsolete, as economic equivalent should be.	151