The Curious Task

What Do Companies Owe Society? - Abraham Singer


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In this episode, Alex speaks with Abraham Singer about his book Everyone’s Business, exploring why businesses and other private organizations should be understood not only as economic entities but as political communities that shape power, responsibility, and moral life. Singer explains how firms structure our choices, why classical liberals must take internal organizational governance more seriously, and what it means to treat workplaces as sites of real political and ethical significance.

References

Everyone’s Business: Toward a New Understanding of How Organizations Shape Our Lives - Abraham Singer

https://a.co/d/iz5yWEU 

“The Form Of The Firm” - Abraham Singer

https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-form-of-the-firm-9780197586860?cc=ca&lang=en& 

Abraham's Scholarly Articles

https://abrahamsinger.weebly.com/research.html 

“The Political Nature of the Firm and the Cost of Norms” - Abraham Singer

https://www.jstor.org/stable/26550924 

Private Government - Elizabeth Anderson

https://a.co/d/gNrwGK2 

The Nature of the Firm - Ronald Coase

https://www.jstor.org/stable/2626876 

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