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In social science and economics, corporate capitalism is a Capitalism marketplace characterized by the dominance of hierarchical and bureaucratic .
Corporations are usually called public entities or publicly traded entities when parts of their business can be bought in the form of shares on the stock market. This is done as a way of raising capital to finance the investments of the corporation. The appoint the executives of the corporation, who are the ones running the corporation via a hierarchical chain of power, where the bulk of investor decisions are made at the top and have effects on those beneath them.
Dwight D. Eisenhower criticized the notion of the confluence of corporate power and de facto fascism,Ira Chernus (1997). "Eisenhower's Ideology in World War II". Armed Forces & Society. 23(4): 595–613. but nevertheless brought attention to the "conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry" (the military–industrial complex) in his 1961 Farewell Address to the Nation, and stressed "the need to maintain balance in and among national programs—balance between the private and the public economy, balance between cost and hoped for advantage".
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