Scholarlink

<p>This article responds to Matt Caulfield’s review of <i>Seeing Like a Firm</i> (OUP, 2024). It clarifies the book’s central claims and addresses three main points of contention: the priority of relational equality over efficiency, the interpretation of conservatism and the “aesthetics of inequality,” and the balance between justification and political urgency in the theory of the firm. I argue that equality must be treated as foundational rather than instrumental, that the dominant form of conservatism in corporate life is best captured as a “conservatism of commerce,” and that political theory must take hierarchy and domination as starting points rather than abstract away from them. The exchange highlights the need for a political theory of corporations that is more explicitly political and less confined to technocratic or efficiency-based frameworks.</p>

错误：搜索内容不能为空，请输入英文关键词
错误：关键词超出字数限制，请精简
高级检索

Political Political Theory of Corporations: Answer To Caulfield’s (2025) If You’re an Egalitarian, How Come You’re a Firm?

  • 期刊论文

  • 发表日期：

    2025年9月26日

查看全文
  • Pierre-Yves Néron

摘要

This article responds to Matt Caulfield’s review of Seeing Like a Firm (OUP, 2024). It clarifies the book’s central claims and addresses three main points of contention: the priority of relational equality over efficiency, the interpretation of conservatism and the “aesthetics of inequality,” and the balance between justification and political urgency in the theory of the firm. I argue that equality must be treated as foundational rather than instrumental, that the dominant form of conservatism in corporate life is best captured as a “conservatism of commerce,” and that political theory must take hierarchy and domination as starting points rather than abstract away from them. The exchange highlights the need for a political theory of corporations that is more explicitly political and less confined to technocratic or efficiency-based frameworks.