In The American Corporation Today, Carl Kaysen and nineteen top business experts from around the country provide a much-needed analysis of American corporate life at the end of the century. Here is the American corporation from every angle--its postwar history, its relation to the law, its financing, its impact on technological innovation, its role as employer and as political force, and much more. Vital to everyone concerned with American big business today, this collection is sure to become the new standard upon which future studies of the corporation will be built.