TY - BOOK AU - Bainbridge,Stephen M. TI - The profit motive: defending shareholder value maximization SN - 9781316515471 U1 - 346.73066 PY - 2023/// CY - Cambridge PB - Cambridge University Press KW - Corporation law KW - United States KW - Philosophy KW - Stockholder wealth N1 - Introduction -- I. The law -- The battle of River Rouge -- Fireplug funding for Princeton -- Why didn't the cubs have to play nigh baseball? -- Defending dodge -- To make stakeholder capitalism the rule, you would have to change most of corporate law -- What about the benefit corporation? -- II. The merits -- Possible merits of the business roundtable's embrace of stakeholder capitalism -- Was there a business case for the business roundtable's embrace for the stakeholder capitalism -- Why did the business roundtable CEOs shift their position? -- Why the business roundtable CEOs should have stayed the course ER -