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The Corporation'S Governmental Provenance And Its Significance

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Corporations cannot exist, scholars rightly note, without being constituted by government. However, many take a further step, claiming that corporations are normatively distinct from other market actors because of this governmental provenance. They are mistaken. Like corporations, markets and contracts also require government for their creation. Governmental provenance does not distinguish corporations normatively because our coercive social institutions are pro tanto justified in re-arranging both corporate and non-corporate market activities on behalf of social and political values. The corporation is distinct only practically and prudentially, in that it represents a more proximate instrument for effecting morality in the economy.

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  • Singer, Abraham A., 2019. "The Corporation'S Governmental Provenance And Its Significance," Economics and Philosophy, Cambridge University Press, vol. 35(2), pages 283-306, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:ecnphi:v:35:y:2019:i:02:p:283-306_00
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