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Title: GROUP AGENCY
THE POSSIBILITY, DESIGN, AND STATUS OF CORPORATE AGENTS
By: Christian List, Philip Pettit
Format: Hardback

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ISBN 10: 0199591563
ISBN 13: 9780199591565
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Publisher: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Pub. date: 7 April, 2011
Pages: 250
Description: 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 original arguments, grounded in cutting-edge work on social choice, economics, and philosophy, to show there really are group agents, over and above the individual agents who compose them.
Synopsis: Are companies, churches, and states genuine agents? Or are they just collections of individual agents that give a misleading impression of unity? This question is important, since the answer dictates how we should explain the behaviour of these entities and whether we should treat them as responsible and accountable on the model of individual agents. Group Agency offers a new approach to that question and is relevant, therefore, to a range of fields from philosophy to law, politics, and the social sciences. Christian List and Philip Pettit argue that there really are group or corporate agents, over and above the individual agents who compose them, and that a proper approach to the social sciences, law, morality, and politics must take account of this fact. Unlike some earlier defences of group agency, their account is entirely unmysterious in character and, despite not being technically difficult, is grounded in cutting-edge work in social choice theory, economics, and philosophy.
Illustrations: 10 illustrations
Publication: UK
Imprint: Oxford University Press
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