Concept
Corporation
Overview
legal entity incorporated through a legislative or registration process
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It is to prevent this reduction of price, and consequently of wages and profit, by restraining that free competition which would most certainly occasion it, that all corporations, and the greater part of corporation laws, have been established. In order to erect a corporation, no other authority in ancient times was requisite, in many parts of Europe, but that of the town-corporate in which it was established. In…
Adam Smith, An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
Names Corporation several times; the author is tied to Corporation in the knowledge graph.
When those companies do not trade upon a joint stock, but are obliged to admit any person, properly qualified, upon paying a certain fine, and agreeing to submit to the regulations of the company, each member trading upon his own stock, and at his own risk, they are called regulated companies. When they trade upon a joint stock, each member sharing in the common profit or loss, in proportion to his share in this…
Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
States what Corporation is; names Corporation several times.
Or, suppose a person has a little property invested in some one of the various corporations which offer the most convenient method for placing small sums as well as large. This railroad defies the government by owning coal mines as well as transporting the product; that public service corporation has obtained its franchise by bribery; this corporation is an employer of child labor; that finds it less expensive to…
John Dewey, Ethics
Names Corporation several times; states what Corporation is.
Philosophers who discussed Corporation
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Place in the tradition
Part of Robert C. Solomon.