I haven’t had a chance to read this paper by Walter Block and J.H. Huebert in defense of the corporate form, but I present it to readers who may be interested.
Last time I posted on this topic I had an angry, uncomprehending critic going on about corporations that don’t pay wages high enough to satisfy him, etc., and scolding me for defending such a thing. To make this as clear as possible this time, what we are discussing here is not the particular practices of certain corporations (though I’m sure I would disagree with that critic even there) but on the corporate form itself, and whether it exists only as a result of special state privilege or could emerge in a free society on the basis of freely accepted contractual arrangements.