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The Form of the Firm attempts to unveil the nature of the corporation as it exists in modern liberal societies. The author contends that economic theories understate the importance and danger of corporate power, and should be supplemented with a political analysis that foregrounds the sorts of political and moral values at stake in corporate activity.
List of contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. A Framework for a Political Theory of the Corporation
- Section I. The Economic Theory of Corporate Efficiency and Justice
- Chapter 2. The Classical Theories of the Corporation
- Chapter 3. Ronald Coase and the Difference between Markets and Firms
- Chapter 4. The Managerial Challenge to Liberalism
- Chapter 5. The Chicago School's Theory of the Corporation
- Chapter 6. From Market to Firm to Market Again
- Section II: A Normative Account of Corporate Efficiency
- Chapter 7. The Concept of "Norm-Governed Productivity"
- Chapter 8. Corporate Justice Within Efficiency Horizons
- Section III: Toward a More Just Corporate Regime: Law, Governance, and Ethics
- Chapter 9. Toward a Relational Corporate Law
- Chapter 10. The Architecture of Corporate Governance and Workplace Democracy
- Chapter 11. Business Ethics and Efficiency: The Market Failures Approach
- Chapter 12. Business Ethics and Equality: The Concept of "Justice Failure"
- Conclusion
- Works Cited
About the author
Abraham A. Singer is currently assistant professor of Management at Loyola University Chicago's Quinlan School of Business. His research and teaching interests lie within and between business ethics and political theory.
Summary
The Form of the Firm attempts to unveil the nature of the corporation as it exists in modern liberal societies. The author contends that economic theories understate the importance and danger of corporate power, and should be supplemented with a political analysis that foregrounds the sorts of political and moral values at stake in corporate activity.
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Singer has provided the most comprehensive framing to date of the relevant questions and theoretical underpinnings for a political theory of the firm. He is, throughout, a reliable and witty guide for both political philosophers unfamiliar with theories of the firm in law and economics, on the one hand, and social scientists and lawyers in need of a primer on the latest developments in political philosophy, on the other." -Wayne Norman, Mike & Ruth Mackowski Professor of Ethics, Duke University
