Author: Harry Glasbeek

Harry Glasbeek is a Professor Emeritus and Senior Scholar, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University. His latest books are Class Privilege: How law shelters shareholders and coddles capitalism (2017), the follow-up, Capitalism: a crime story (2018), and Law at Work: The Coercion and Co-option of the Working Class (2024), published by Between the Lines, Toronto.

The Duplicity of Law and the Cowardice of Capitalists

Capitalism is ugly. The major villains at Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan, Citigroup, Barclays Bank, Royal Bank of Scotland, AIG, were not impelled by any desperate need they had to meet, … Keep reading »

Economy • August 3, 2017 • Harry Glasbeek
The Presumed Innocence of Capitalism and Lac-Megantic

“If the soul is left in darkness, sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who creates the darkness.” — Monseigneur Bienvenu … Keep reading »

Canada, Economy • August 3, 2013 • Harry Glasbeek