Abstract Aggregating individuals’ consistent attitudes might produce inconsistent collective attitudes. Some groups therefore need the capacity to form that are irreducible those of their members. Such groups, group-agent realists argue, agents in control own attitude formation. In this paper, however, I show how realism overlooks important fact consist strategically interacting agents. Only by...

Abstract A thorny question surrounding the meaning of ought concerns a felt distinction between deontic uses that seem to evaluate state affairs versus those describe requirement or obligation perform an action, as in (A) and (B), respectively. There not be childhood death disease. (B) You keep promise. Various accounts have been offered explain contrast “agentive” “non-agentive” sentences. One...

The purpose of this paper is to establish the importance of distinguishing unmitigated agency and unmitigated communion from agency and communion. First, we examine the empirical overlap and distinctions among the four constructs. Then, we demonstrate the differential association of unmitigated agency, unmitigated communion, agency, and communion to relationship and health outcomes. We conclude...

This research attempts to investigate the effect of financial constraints and different levels of agency costs on the investment efficiency of companies in Iran. Following the design of the financial risk assessment indexes, the transaction information was collected from the Stock Exchange in the five-year period of 2011-2015. The statistical sample consists of 128 companies selected by samplin...

A ban — requiring a two-thirds majority — would take effect 90 days later, ending the annual summer bluefi n hunt. " Banning international trade in the imperilled Atlantic and Mediterranean bluefi n tuna is the only possible course of action — this is our last chance to save this over-exploited species, " said Heike Vesper, fi sheries offi cer at WWF Germany. " It's fantastic the UK is taking s...