The concept in this title, presented as a narrative, contends that the corporation is created by law to function like a psychopathic personality whose destructive behaviour, if unchecked, leads to scandal and ruin.

This paper introduces a simple procedure to construct ownership maps in Stata, uses a new method to map the development of the global network of multinational business groups over time and investigates the development of core components of the network. Based on Bureau van Dijk's ORBIS database,...