Bhairitu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > akasha_108 wrote: B:
> No, rein them in. Break them up. They are too large and many > corporations are really a bunch of smaller groups anymore anyway. > ... > I would suspect that many a large corporation CEO would sigh a relief at having an almost impossible task of managing such a monster taken away from and in its place a smaller more reasonable one to manage. A: It may be. But thats an opinion. Not substantiated. Regardless, it in itself is not a justification for breaking up a corporation. I generally favor smaller companies -- as most reseach points out - more innovation, higher growth etc. But Corps, who ere complying with laws and regulations, are in a better postition to determine that than you are I. And the scale of some industries is such that "larger" is more competitive than smaller. A: > >I am not locked into any thinking. I do favor things which works. The capital markets (and the corporate structure enables them) are the drivers of technology, innovation and growth. Not perfect, refinements always needed. But its sad you can think of no other alternative than to dissolve corporations and capital markets rather than reform them. > > > > > > > Well you are a little wrong there. Since I work in the tech field I > know that most of the innovation comes from small companies and > startups. Later they may be gobbled up by a larger firm. You are missing my point. I was refering to capital markets being the drivers of technology, innovation and growth. The reference to corps was that it would be hard to have capital markets without corporations. It did not reference size of corps. I agree, studies show more innivation comes from smaller companies. Most of which are still corporations. > >>Right now their batting > >>average as far as the environment goes is not too good. > >> > >> > > > >And this is why they should be dissovled? Again thats a sad POV. > Again I said nothing about dissolving them. A: What are you proposing then? Limiting their size? Thus breaking them up into many parts? In that case, the original form is "dissolved". A: > Its primarily the governements fault, and ultimately the > >voters, that such laws, regulations and incentive mechanisms are > >weaker than optimal. > >If you want better environmental track records by corporations, tax > >pollution, enact real vehicle efficiency standards -- including trucks > >and SUVs, tax gasoline (on the order of $2/gal), enact a BTU and > >carbon tax (which would affect electical, natural gas and coal > >production), tax the full lifescyle costs of nuclear mining and > >waste, etc. In other words, incorporate the costs of pollution into > >the cost of things that pollute. As economists say, "Internalize the>externalities". > >If the above were done, corporations would have excellent environtal records. And the overall economy would be more efficient, cleaner, and growing at a faster rate (allowing more funding for things like educations and health.) > > > I see nothing wrong with that idea. However you would still have to > watch over the corporate gangsters. Just letting them run wild will > plunder the planet into death. We are all for law enforcement. And currently corps and CEO are getting prosecuted to the extent of the current law. If current law allows for corps to dump uncompensated costs on sociey, laws adn regulations should be made stronger. Again, the problem is not primarily a particular business structure or its size, but its a problem of inadequate legislation and regulation to prevent "cost dumping" / externalities dumping on society. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
