:Corporations cannot exist, scholars rightly note, without being constituted by government. However, many take a further step, claiming that corporations are normatively distinct from other market actors because of this governmental provenance. They are mistaken. Like corporations, markets and contracts also require government for their creation. Governmental provenance does not distinguish corporations normatively because our coercive social institutions are pro tanto justified in re-arranging both corporate and non-corporate market activities on behalf of social and political values. The corporation is distinct only practically and prudentially, in that it represents a more proximate instrument for effecting morality in the economy.

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本公司的政府渊源及其意义

: 学者们正确地指出，如果没有政府组成，公司就不可能存在。然而，许多人更进一步，声称由于这种政府出处，公司在规范上不同于其他市场参与者。他们错了。与公司一样，市场和合同的创建也需要政府。政府出处并不能规范地区分公司，因为我们的强制性社会制度是原唐托有理由代表社会和政治价值观重新安排公司和非公司市场活动。公司只是在实践上和审慎上是不同的，因为它代表了一种更接近于在经济中影响道德的工具。