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Matthew Lau: Happy birthday, Milton Friedman!
Financial Post via Yahoo Finance· 2 years agoFree-marketers tend to look askance at centralized hierarchical institutions so a comparison to the Catholic Church may not be apt, but if modern...
Corporations were never supposed to write the rules of the game. Now they need to help make them...
Fortune via Yahoo Finance· 1 year agoIn 1962, Milton Friedman said “There is one and only one social responsibility of business–to use...
Was Milton Friedman the first ‘woke’ capitalist?
Fortune via Yahoo Finance· 2 years agoToday, shareowners insist companies must make money–and expect executives to do so in a manner that is sustainable, says 1PointSix CEO Terrence Keeley.
Matthew Lau: First greenwashing, now diversity-washing. Let's scrap ESG
Financial Post via Yahoo Finance· 1 year agoThe analytical looseness characterizing discussions of corporate social responsibility, which Milton...
What ESG goals actually change at companies that set them
Quartz via Yahoo Finance· 12 months ago“The social responsibility of business is to increase its profits,” economist Milton Friedman wrote...
Exxon is taking its shareholders to court as the anti-ESG backlash escalates into a civil war...
Fortune via Yahoo Finance· 3 months agoSince the 2008 financial crisis, a growing chorus of advocates and scholars have argued that...
What the Civil Rights Movement Can Teach Us About Corporate Culture Wars
Time via Yahoo News· 2 months agoPolice detains 6 of the demonstrators as the road and traffic is blocked due to the climate...
Bruce Pardy: ESG will kill capitalism, and freedom along with it
Financial Post via Yahoo Finance· 1 year agoFor years, the World Economic Forum, an unholy alliance of political leaders, corporate elites and...
Matthew Lau: The ESG dilemma over social good
Financial Post via Yahoo Finance· 2 years agoAccording to the doctrine of corporate social responsibility, businesses are supposed to pursue social good instead of concerning themselves “merely”...
How America’s hotbed of progressive economics borrowed from Milton Friedman to pressure the...
Fortune via Yahoo Finance· 9 months agoU. Mass–Amherst's Jared Starr says shareholder supremacy can tackle the climate emergency: "How do...
