Biographical note: Christopher McMahon is Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and author of Reasonable Disagreement: A Theory of Political Morality, Collective Rationality and Collective Reasoning, and Authority and Democracy: A General Theory of Government...

Political philosopher Christopher McMahon argues that the social authority of corporate executives is best understood as a form of political authority. Public Capitalism explores the implications of that claim and sketches a new theoretical framework for discussion of the moral and political...