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 Singerhttps://a.co/d/iz5yWEU 
“The Form Of The Firm” - Abraham Singerhttps://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-form-of-the-firm-9780197586860?cc=ca&lang=en& 
Abraham's Scholarly Articleshttps://abrahamsinger.weebly.com/research.html 
“The Political Nature of the Firm and the Cost of Norms” - Abraham Singerhttps://www.jstor.org/stable/26550924 
Private Government - Elizabeth Andersonhttps://a.co/d/gNrwGK2 
The Nature of the Firm - Ronald Coasehttps://www.jstor.org/stable/2626876 
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The Curious Task

Institute for Liberal Studies

What Do Companies Owe Society? - Abraham Singer

DEC 10, 202568 MIN
The Curious Task

What Do Companies Owe Society? - Abraham Singer

DEC 10, 202568 MIN

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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  --- Thanks to our patrons, including Kris Rondolo, Amy Willis, and Christopher McDonald. To support The Curious Task, visit: https://patreon.com/curioustask