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