Friedman at 50: Is It Still the Social Responsibility of Business to Increase Profits?
回顾弗里德曼50年前的观点,认为企业社会责任就是增加利润,如今利润创历史新高,但企业正试图填补公共机构空缺,这可能会进一步削弱公民制度。
Fifty years ago Milton Friedman famously argued that the social responsibility of business is to increase its profits, which today are at record highs. And, as public institutions falter, business is now offering to step into the void. We must resist this (further) intrusion of business into the public sphere, as it will further depreciate civic institutions. The business of business is business, and so it should be. Business’ track record in public politics has been to engineer the rules of the game to its own advantage.