The public be damned,” railroad magnate William Henry Vanderbilt snorted at a reporter in 1882. The impertinent scribe had asked whether Vanderbilt ran his railroads with an eye toward public benefit. At the time, Vanderbilt was among the most powerful men in American business—and by his own estimation the richest man in the world. His […]
Kent Greenfield
Kent Greenfield is professor of law and Dean's Research Scholar at Boston College Law School. He is the author of The Failure of Corporate Law: Fundamental Flaws and Progressive Possibilities and The Myth of Choice: Personal Responsibility in a World of Limits.
