Person

Gardiner C. Means

Economists who analyzed the separation of corporate ownership and control in modern capitalism.

Why this matters

Berle and Means foreshadow accountability gaps—when authority runs firms owners cannot really steer.

Focus in observatory

Works

book

The Modern Corporation and Private Property

Berle, Adolf A., Jr., and Gardiner C. Means. *The Modern Corporation and Private Property*. New York: Macmillan, 1932.

Related books

Book

Coupling

Cohesion, Consequence, and the Architecture of Responsibility

A practical framework for seeing where systems are tightly joined, where they drift apart, and how those coupling choices shape accountability over time.