NP but speaking of labor and business............

[Mark Kohut]

part, simply some part, of P's vision of history, esp. from the onset of the 
industrial revolution, could
be linked, perhaps--or mayhaps; lost Elizabethan word I now like---to when 
corporations were 
granted personhood...a topic we have talked about here......Here is an economist 
carrying some
notions all the way to a philosophy of civilization.....not unlike TRP?

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/12/10/hive-minds-and-kleptocrats/