Heroic leadership: authority as power -- Rational leadership: arguing to authority -- Cynicism: confronting managerial leadership -- Stoicism: managing adversity -- Religious leadership: two faces of authority -- Political leadership: contractual authority -- German romanticism: the power of the...

Philosophers, psychologists, and economists have long argued that certain decision rights carry not only instrumental value but may also be valuable for their own sake. The ideas of autonomy, freedom, and liberty derive their intuitive appeal—at least partly—from an assumed positive...