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Friday, February 17, 2012

Strategic CSR - Milton Friedman

As you know from Chapter 3 of the second edition (Milton Friedman vs. Charles Handy, pp.55-57), I consider Milton Friedman to be a friend of strategic CSR.

While he was clearly very good at using inflammatory rhetoric to maximize the attention paid to his arguments, the logic underlying those arguments is fascinating to watch:


He had a first-rate mind, was a brilliant showman, and is someone I would have loved to have met.