Persona Ficta: How Theology Built the Corporate Person (And the Bardi-Peruzzi Playbook)
Book: Financial Vipers of Venice
Author: Joseph P. Farrell
ISBN: 978-1-93623-974-0
The Joke That Starts the Chapter
Chapter 7 opens with a dark joke from after the 2008 financial crisis: “I’ll believe corporations are persons when Texas executes one.” A lawyer in the room always objects that corporations exist precisely to limit personal liability.