We have another great supporter and long-time advocate of commerce: Evan Osborne, economist, Wright State in Dayton.
Dr. Osborne sent me his book The Rise of the Anti-Corporate Movement (just recently released in paperback). I recommend it highly.
Dr. Osborne notices a phenomenon that I hadn't seen, the anti-corporate movement is growing. It has been growing, measurably, since 1987 when the first Pew study found 27% 'completely agreed' with the statement 'too much power is concentrated in the hands of a few big companies'. Today 40% respond to that question with complete agreement. For Democrats the percentage who take that position is even higher, nearly double.
Osborne locates this rise of the anti-corporate movement in the fall of communism in Russia and China. The complete loss of the main ideology led to the consequent consolidation of diverse anti-commercial views into a unified neo-paranoid hostility toward large and global corporations. I agree with his explanation.
The book does a wonderful job of explicating the issues in the
movement, showing the extent of the movement and rebutting the (mostly
cretinous) positions.
My own statement of the fallacy of the anti-corporate paranoia is in my blog which points out that only 11 of the 1960 American corporations in the top 100 Global companies (nearly all of the top 100 were American in 1960) are still there. Since mid 2008, that number has dropped below 9. Big global corporations are fragile hot-house flowers not tyrannical monsters.
To get a sense of Dr. Osborne's views one exemplary excerpt from the beginning of a piece I found on his home page is here.