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Corporations and Persons

2025· book· en· W4410490410 on OpenAlexaff
David Silver

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typebook
Languageen
FieldBusiness, Management and Accounting
TopicCorporate Governance and Law
Canadian institutionsUniversity of British Columbia
Fundersnot available
KeywordsBusiness

Abstract

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Abstract One overarching theme of the book is that the for-profit corporation is a morally responsible person, with a critically important set of duties within democratic society. This persons-based theory of the firm holds that the fundamental purpose of the firm is to create products and services which benefit human persons and stands in contrast to the dominant view which holds that the firm is an amoral actor focussed exclusively on maximizing profits. The theory also holds that corporations have a set of moral rights and duties which are shaped through the democratic process. This connects with the second theme, which holds that democratic societies have a wide prerogative to structure the firm as part of an overall just arrangement of society. This position stands in contrast to views which see firms as governed by the market logic of competition and efficiency. A third theme diagnoses the current relationship between corporations and the rest of democratic society as dysfunctional and proposes ways that the relationship can be transformed into one based on mutual respect. Fourth, the book explores how the failure of corporations to recognize their distinctly democratic duties presents a threat to liberal democratic institutions and values and examines how corporations should respond when they are implicated in attacks on the liberal democratic order.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.405
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.016
GPT teacher head0.194
Teacher spread0.177 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreOther

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2025
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