How Should We Talk about Corporations? The Languages of Economics and of Citizenship

Authors

James Boyd White, University of Michigan Law SchoolFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-1985

Abstract

My immediate subject in this Comment is section 2.01 of the American Law Institute's proposed Principles of Corporate Governance (Tentative Draft No. 2), which defines in general terms the proper objectives and conduct of a business corporation. My larger subject has to do with the adequacy and inadequacy of various languages in which corporate pur­poses and limits might be expressed, and especially with the limits of the economic language used in the ALI Draft.

Recommended Citation

White, James Boyd. "How Should We Talk about Corporations? The Languages of Economics and of Citizenship." Yale L.J. 94 (1985): 1416-25.