Critically assess the validity of the claim that the political power of corporations should be blamed for allegedly “regressive” tax policies, weak capital controls and growing income inequality in Canada and other liberal democracies.

Business-Government Relations: Weekly Memo

Readings:
1-Uneasy Partnerships, Hale Reading (Chapter 11, 12)

2- Young, Kevin A., Tarun Banerjee, and Michael Schwartz. 2018. “Capital Strikes as a Corporate Political Strategy: The Structural Power of Business in the Obama Era.”   Politics & Society,no1:3.

Main Discussion Question: Critically assess the validity of the claim that the political power of corporations should be blamed for allegedly “regressive” tax policies, weak capital controls and growing income inequality in Canada and other liberal democracies.