The Social Responsibility of Business is to Increase its Profits (full article) by Milton Friedman. Also at http://www.umich.edu/~thecore/doc/Friedman.pdf [But contrast the historical origin of keizai or “economy” in Japanese – Keizai comes from keisei zaimin, or “administering society and deliverance of people” in 18th century Osaka. Also Sen shows Friedman’s view is not that of […]
Entries from March 30th, 2010
The Social Responsibility of Business is to Increase its Profits
March 30th, 2010 · No Comments · economics
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Basic statements about capitalism
March 29th, 2010 · No Comments · general
This won’t be very systematic but Iwill be keeping notes on this blog on the basic ideas and statements about capitalism. I have started reading Economics and the Crisis of Ecology by Narindar Singh (3rd edition 1989 OUP). For him the real villain of the piece are the petrochemical and associated industries. The initial argument of […]
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Reading Amartya Sen (1)
March 27th, 2010 · No Comments · economics, Sen
Sen seems to be popping up everywhere these days. He was mentioned by a couple of speakers at the recent Roundhouse Critical Theory conference and his latest book The Idea of Justice will be the discussion topic at the BSA Theory study group at the forthcoming BSA conference in April. So I had a quick […]
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