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The Form of the Firm - A Normative Political Theory of the Corporation (Hardcover)
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The Form of the Firm - A Normative Political Theory of the Corporation (Hardcover)
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Contemporary discussions of the corporation tend to divide into one
of two camps: On one side are scholars who treat the firm as a
purely economic and contractual entity, while another set of
scholars look at corporations in purely political terms. Therefore,
the corporation is not merely an economic endeavor; it is a
political institution and must therefore serve social ends and not
merely profit. In The Form of the Firm, Abraham Singer contends
that both of these approaches overstate their cases dramatically,
resulting in two wrongheaded, influential accounts of the
corporation. He offers a third way that sees the corporation as
being both economic and political. First, it is true that
corporations exist primarily to increase economic efficiency.
However, they do this in ways that distinguish them from the
markets in which they operate. Corporations are not natural
outgrowths of the free market, but institutions that we have
developed to correct market inefficiencies through mechanisms
normally associated with politics. Corporations use social power,
norms, and state-sanctioned authority to establish economic
cooperation in ways that markets cannot. But, Singer argues that
they also have an obligation to uphold the norms of liberal
democracy that enable their existence and smooth-running in the
first place. A profound rethinking of what a corporation actually
is and how power within it ought to be structured and exercised,
The Form of the Firm will reshape our understanding of corporate
governance, corporate law, and business ethics.
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