Abraham A Singer
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 4397944 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Abraham A Singer |
| NOMBRES | Abraham A |
| APELLIDO | Singer |
| FIRMA | SINGER A A |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 8 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 7 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 8 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2017 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
The Corporate Baby in the Bathwater
The Form of the Firm
Contemporary discussions of the corporation tend to fall into one of two camps. The side that dominates much of public discourse is those who conceive of the corporation as purely economic. According to this view, corporations are “nexuses of contracts” that have no greater duties than to maximize profits for their shareholders and that should be given legal and political deference to do so. On the other side are those who conceive of the corpora…
A Framework for a Political Theory of the Corporation
This chapter provides the methodological framework for the rest of the book. It adopts a method of laying out the assumptions that are inherent to our current social institutions, and using them to critically engage with extant corporate structures and practices. It begins by laying out two presuppositions that seem to characterize our political and economic order: (1) liberal democratic norms and institutions are preferable to others; and (2) ma…
Conclusion
The conclusion reviews the arguments that have been offered throughout the book. This book started with some basic presuppositions that represent the underlying normative commitments of the liberal democratic market societies we find ourselves in. This chapters reviews the critique offered of the Chicago School of economics, the normative account of corporate productivity, as well as the prescriptions offered for corporate law, corporate governan…
Corporate Justice within Efficiency Horizons
This chapter expands on the idea of norm-governed productivity. Because this approach opens the door for a more straightforwardly political assessment of corporate hierarchy, this chapter considers how theories of workplace democracy stack up against this view of corporate efficiency. It argues that radical and participatory democrats are prone to error by essentially doing the mirror image of what the Chicago school does: where Chicago school sc…
The Managerial Challenge to Liberalism
This chapter considers the “managerial” approach to the corporation by unpacking Berle and Means’s famous argument about the problems of the modern corporation. This approach is important because it has proven influential in its own right; the “separation of ownership from control” that Berle and Means famously observed, and the resulting power and discretion that managers enjoy, has been an important trope for critics of corporate capitalism. It…
The Form of the Firm
The Corporation as a Relational Entity
Are corporations merely composites of individuals, which then take on the rights and duties of individuals, or are they concessions from a sovereign government and therefore subject to popular control? The latter view in this perennial debate has been particularly influential to those who see the idea of corporate personhood as fundamentally anti-democratic and destructive. While sympathetic to the goals of these critics, this paper aims to show …
The Corporation as a Relational Entity
Are corporations merely composites of individuals, which then take on the rights and duties of individuals, or are they concessions from a sovereign government and therefore subject to popular control? The latter view in this perennial debate has been particularly influential to those who see the idea of corporate personhood as fundamentally anti-democratic and destructive. While sympathetic to the goals of these critics, this paper aims to show …
The Corporation as a Relational Entity
Are corporations merely composites of individuals, which then take on the rights and duties of individuals, or are they concessions from a sovereign government and therefore subject to popular control? The latter view in this perennial debate has been particularly influential to those who see the idea of corporate personhood as fundamentally anti-democratic and destructive. While sympathetic to the goals of these critics, this paper aims to show …
The Form of the Firm
Contemporary discussions of the corporation tend to fall into one of two camps. The side that dominates much of public discourse is those who conceive of the corporation as purely economic. According to this view, corporations are “nexuses of contracts” that have no greater duties than to maximize profits for their shareholders and that should be given legal and political deference to do so. On the other side are those who conceive of the corpora…
A Framework for a Political Theory of the Corporation
This chapter provides the methodological framework for the rest of the book. It adopts a method of laying out the assumptions that are inherent to our current social institutions, and using them to critically engage with extant corporate structures and practices. It begins by laying out two presuppositions that seem to characterize our political and economic order: (1) liberal democratic norms and institutions are preferable to others; and (2) ma…
Conclusion
The conclusion reviews the arguments that have been offered throughout the book. This book started with some basic presuppositions that represent the underlying normative commitments of the liberal democratic market societies we find ourselves in. This chapters reviews the critique offered of the Chicago School of economics, the normative account of corporate productivity, as well as the prescriptions offered for corporate law, corporate governan…
Corporate Justice within Efficiency Horizons
This chapter expands on the idea of norm-governed productivity. Because this approach opens the door for a more straightforwardly political assessment of corporate hierarchy, this chapter considers how theories of workplace democracy stack up against this view of corporate efficiency. It argues that radical and participatory democrats are prone to error by essentially doing the mirror image of what the Chicago school does: where Chicago school sc…
The Managerial Challenge to Liberalism
This chapter considers the “managerial” approach to the corporation by unpacking Berle and Means’s famous argument about the problems of the modern corporation. This approach is important because it has proven influential in its own right; the “separation of ownership from control” that Berle and Means famously observed, and the resulting power and discretion that managers enjoy, has been an important trope for critics of corporate capitalism. It…
The Form of the Firm
The Corporate Baby in the Bathwater
Law (8 obras) · Political science (8 obras) · Law and economics (7 obras) · Political Economy and Marxism (7 obras) · Politics (7 obras) · Sociology (7 obras) · Corporation (5 obras) · Economics (5 obras) · Positive economics (4 obras) · Democracy (3 obras)