Entitled Ease: Social Milieu of Corporate Criminals |
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Authors: | Margaret E. Beare |
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Affiliation: | 1.Osgoode Hall Law School,York University,Toronto,Canada |
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Abstract: | This paper looks at the mechanisms through which financial corruption thrives both in Canadian society and elsewhere. There is a significant literature that examines the embeddedness of capitalism and the biases and advantages that this provides to all profit-directed activities. My focus is more on the social and attitudinal ways in which the embeddedness is exploited and simultaneously denied while serving as a lifestyle of the financially advantaged. I am interested in these cultures that develop and how the people within them come to accept their impunity and their entitlements as normal or at least ‘business as usual’. In addition, I am interested in the resistance to change pertaining to corruption of the powerful segments of our society. I present case studies that expose not only the privileges and advantages that capital allocates to the wealthiest but also a picture of the national and international social interactions among the clients, the enablers, and the regulators whereby the access to privilege is legitimized. |
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