Philosophy 2074F/G Study Guide - Egotism
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The corporation a way of organizing human activity: began as legal entities defined by contracts and government documents that existed for single purposes. Stockholder theory the management of a company should only concern itself with the interests of the stockholders. Many of the arguments in favour of the stockholder theory assume that the capitalist system is one that produces the most good for the most people. The stockholder theorist that we are looking at is milton friedman: the argument from ownership corporate managers are employees of the owners of the corporation (the stockholders) The role of the stockholder is to provide capital and their reward is all of the profit. The role of managers is to ensure that agents play their correct roles in a corporation and that agents receive their proper reward so managers must act to ensure that stockholders receive all the profit from the corporation. Violates the idea that there is to be no taxation without representation.