Group Agency: The Possibility, Design, and Status of Corporate Agents

by Christian List and Philip Pettit

Book Overview

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 go about explaining the behaviour of these entities and whether we should treat them as responsible and accountable in the manner of individuals. Group Agency offers a new approach to that question and is relevant, therefore, in a range...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199679673
• ISBN13: 9780199679676
• Release Date: May 2013
• Publisher: Oxford University Press (UK)
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"