SAE Theory of the Company · Paper 0: Theory of the Company and the Tradition: The Price Falls on What Is Done / SAE 公司论 Paper 0: 公司论与传统:价格落在事上
Year: 2026
Type: preprint
Abstract: The Prequel and the six papers of this series have been written. They ask how a company whose consensus includes "a human being is an end" treats its investors, its employees, its users, its partners and the people its acts reach. The answer is gathered into one main line: a person has no equivalent; a company buys what people do, not people; the price falls on what is done, not on the person. This paper lays down no propositions, and changes no sentence of the seven papers. It does four things. First it steps outside the seven papers and has this machine give an account of itself: what it asks and what it does not, how its sentence form and its three layers are arranged, how it divides the work with upstream. Next it interfaces with the tradition, at two depths: the schools whose originals have been examined are carried as far as the examination reaches: Kant, Dodge v. Ford Motor Co., Friedman and the Business Roundtable go through all four steps; the Mackey–Friedman debate, Bebchuk and Tallarita, the British Academy's "Future of the Corporation" programme and Ciepley go through all four steps on the abstracts or pages examined; Freeman, and Hart and Zingales, examined only in one sentence or an abstract, go as far as the third step; the schools reached only through secondary material, Coase, Jensen and Meckling, Berle and Means, Anderson and Ferreras, go as far as the common question and the surface of contact. Several differences fall on two lines: how the purpose is formulated and how the line is put into effect; whether the argument relies on "winning." One more lies outside the two lines: where the line comes from. The second half of the main-line sentence this paper reads as having Kant's Academy edition IV 435 on its source side, and it states the distance between this reading and Kant's own line. Finally it settles accounts: how the items handed down from upstream land, what is adjacent and not taken up, what is handed downstream, and the six slots of remainders. 这个系列的前置篇与六篇已经写完。它们问的是:一家以"人是目的"为共识的公司,怎样待出资人、员工、用户、合作伙伴和它的施为所及的人。答案收成一句主线:人没有等价物;公司买的是人做的事,不是人;价格落在事上,不落在人上。本篇不立命题,也不改动七篇的任何一句。它做四件事。先站到七篇之外,把这台机器自陈一遍:它问什么、不问什么,句式与三层怎样排,与上游怎样分工。再与传统对接,分两种深度:原文核到的几家,按核到的范围推进:康德、道奇诉福特汽车公司案、弗里德曼、商业圆桌会议走完四步,麦基与弗里德曼的辩论、别布丘克与塔拉里塔、英国学院的"公司的未来"项目、奇普利按核到的摘要或页面走完四步,弗里曼、哈特与津加莱斯只核到一句或摘要,走到第三步;只到二手材料的几家,科斯、詹森与梅克林、伯利与米恩斯、安德森、费雷拉斯,走到共同的问题与接触面为止。差异有几处落在两条线上:目的的表述与线的落实;靠不靠"会赢"。另有一处在两条线以外:线从哪里来。主线句的后半,本篇把康德学院版 IV 435 读作它的出处一侧,并写明这一读与康德自己那条线的距离。最后结账:上游交来的几笔怎样落,相邻不接的有哪些,交下游的有哪些,以及六格余项。 Related works(20) Relation Identifier Scheme Resource type Title References 10.5281/zenodo.23269635 DOI Publication / Preprint To Whom the Ought Is Addressed (SAE Institution Theory, Paper 1) References 10.5281/zenodo.23270384 DOI Publication / Preprint Not Crossing the Line (SAE Institution Theory, Paper 2) References 10.5281/zenodo.23271324 DOI Publication / Preprint Open to Questioning (SAE Institution Theory, Paper 6) References 10.5281/zenodo.23874138 DOI Publication / Preprint Accumulation (SAE Political Economy, Paper 1) References 10.5281/zenodo.23874140 DOI Publication / Preprint Chokepoints (SAE Political Economy, Paper 2) References 10.5281/zenodo.23874142 DOI Publication / Preprint Checks (SAE Political Economy, Paper 3) References 10.5281/zenodo.23874146 DOI Publication / Preprint Conversion (SAE Political Economy, Paper 4) References 10.5281/zenodo.23874150 DOI Publication / Preprint Growth (SAE Political Economy, Paper 5) References 10.5281/zenodo.23874154 DOI Publication / Preprint Support (SAE Political Economy, Paper 6) References 10.5281/zenodo.23874158 DOI Publication / Preprint Political Economy and the Tradition: Accumulated Power (SAE Political Economy, Paper 0) References 10.5281/zenodo.24021385 DOI Publication / Preprint A Way Out, a Way Forward (SAE Political Economy, Specialist Paper) References 10.5281/zenodo.19396633 DOI Publication / Preprint Kingdom of Ends vs Kingdom of Means: Phase-Transition Acceleration in the Age of AI (SAE Economics, Paper 6) References 10.5281/zenodo.24030395 DOI Publication / Preprint Is It Worth It? (SAE The Second Enlightenment, Paper 1) References 10.5281/zenodo.24045716 DOI Publication / Preprint What a Company Is Not (SAE Theory of the Company, Prequel) References 10.5281/zenodo.24045721 DOI Publication / Preprint Investment (SAE Theory of the Company, Paper 1) References 10.5281/zenodo.24045723 DOI Publication / Preprint Working Together (SAE Theory of the Company, Paper 2) References 10.5281/zenodo.24045731 DOI Publication / Preprint Service (SAE Theory of the Company, Paper 3) References 10.5281/zenodo.24045733 DOI Publication / Preprint Partners (SAE Theory of the Company, Paper 4) References 10.5281/zenodo.24045735 DOI Publication / Preprint Society (SAE Theory of the Company, Paper 5) References 10.5281/zenodo.24045739 DOI Publication / Preprint Keeping the Direction (SAE Theory of the Company, Paper 6)
Author: Qin, Han
Language: English
Topic: Corporate Governance and Law
Subfield: Strategy and Management
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7225580744