I recommend that anyone who thinks that corporations and other "collective  
entities" pose real problems for methodological individualism do some  
reading in Mancur Olson, among others.  The explanation of collective action  
from an individualistic methodological viewpoint is quite intriguing and  
intellectually satisfying, as compared to the attempt to explain the whole  
as a manifestation of collective will, the hand of Geist, abstract  
productive power, mob psychology and other ways.  
  
Samuel Bostaph