Group agency : the possibility, design, and status of corporate agents /

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Are companies, churches, and states genuine agents? How do we explain their behaviour? Can we treat them as accountable for their actions? List and Pettit offer arguments, grounded in work on social choice, economics, and philosophy, to show there really are group agents, over and above the individu...

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Possibility, design, and status of corporate agents
Hauptverfasser:
List, Christian, Pettit, Philip
Format:
Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht:
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
Zusammenfassung:
Are companies, churches, and states genuine agents? How do we explain their behaviour? Can we treat them as accountable for their actions? List and Pettit offer arguments, grounded in work on social choice, economics, and philosophy, to show there really are group agents, over and above the individual agents who compose them.
Umfang:
1 online resource (ix, 238 pages) : illustrations
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Description based upon print version of record.
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English
Bibliografie:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [202]-229 and indexes.
ISBN:
0-19-967967-3
1-283-35260-5
9786613352606
0-19-161862-4
Schlagworte:
Agent (Philosophy)
Group identity.
Social choice.
Juristic persons.
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