Group Agency
Author | : Christian List |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 249 |
Release | : 2011-04-07 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780199591565 |
ISBN-13 | : 0199591563 |
Rating | : 4/5 (65 Downloads) |
Download or read book Group Agency written by Christian List and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-04-07 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.