Capitalism and freedom

By Frederic L. Pryor. 2010

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Subfields: Demography, Sociology and Political Science

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Spinning gold: The financial returns to stakeholder engagement (2014, background): “Levitt (1958) and Friedman (1962, 1970) famously attack efforts by managers to pursue objectives other than shareholder value maximization as short-term conflict avoidance by managers.”
CEO Greed, Corporate Social Responsibility, and Organizational Resilience to Systemic Shocks (2020, background): “Going back to Friedman (1962), they argue that in a free economy, the only social responsibility for executives should be to maximize the firm’s profits, within the rules of the game—that is, without deception or fraud.”
The Handbook of Neoliberalism (2016, background): “While some, like Milton Friedman (1962), decried the notion that corporations had any responsibility other than the pursuit of profit, others sought to re-orient corporate governance and control around the notions of shareholder value and shareholder primacy. According to Lazonick and O’Sullivan (20”
“Every Kid Is Money” (2015, background): “Scholars such as Chubb and Moe (1990) drew on the decades-old ideas of Friedman (1962) and others to argue that markets were more efficient and more responsive to parents than democratic control, and market tenets have since helped to shape education policy.”
A review of the theories of corporate social responsibility: Its evolutionary path and the road ahead (2008, neutral): “One of the reasons that Friedman (1962) was so opposed to CSR was because he saw the danger of shareholder funds being misappropriated by opportunistic executives in the name of CSR for the enhancement of their own personal social status.”
Political Geography and Stock Returns: The Value and Risk Implications of Proximity to Political Power (2012, neutral): “Then again, based on the Füss and Bechtel (2008) evidence of greater policy risk under unified governments, one could argue that Democratic administrations, that more often than not have had control of Congress over our study period, may be associated with greater policy risk.”
Who Benefits from Economic Freedom? Unraveling the Effect of Economic Freedom on Subjective Well-Being (2013, neutral): “Milton Friedman stated that in most politically free societies, something comparable to a free market to organize the bulk of economic activity is used” (Friedman & Friedman, 2002).”
Bringing the social context back in: governance and wealth distribution in global commodity chains (2008, background): “aiming to control production and increase costs, offering ‘unfair’ advantages to their members at the expense of consumers, other workers and ultimately the whole society (Friedman, 1962). Likewise, any attempts by lead firms collectively to address issues of working conditions at their suppliers’ f”
Corporate Social Responsibility, Noise, and Stock Market Volatility (2012, background): “More generally, investigating negative externalities and the unintended negative consequences of regulations (e.g., Acemoglu & Angrist, 2001; Besley & Burgess, 2004; Friedman, 1962; Gray, 1987; Hoskisson, Castleton, & Withers, 2009; McClintock, Ekins, & Calabria, 2012; Shleifer & Vishny, 1998), econ”
Relationships between Corporate Social Responsibility and Financial Performance: What is the Causality? (2015, neutral): “Among the most important are those of Friedman (1962), Jones (1980), Wood (1991, 1994), McWilliams and Siegel (2001) or Margolis and Walsh (2003).”
Banks and environmental, social and governance drivers: Follow the market or the authorities? (2021, background): “The shareholders, as usual, are interested in those ESG practices that can increase their financial wealth (Friedman, 1962); the second (e.”
A Geography of Logistics: Market Authority and the Security of Supply Chains (2010, background): “Even the eminent neoliberal Milton Friedman supported the collective organization of security, arguing that, “I cannot get the amount of national defense I want and you, a different amount” ( Friedman 2002 , 23); however, although the state still plays the central role planning and coordinating in t”
Can choice promote Education for All? Evidence from growth in private primary schooling in India (2009, background): “Milton Friedman ( 1962 ) began advocating for school choice over half a century ago.”
Corporate Social Responsibility and Shareholder Reaction: The Environmental Awareness of Investors (2013, result): “In particular, they are in line with Godfrey, Merrill, and Hansen (2009), who showed that the negative stock market reaction to the announcement of legal actions against companies (e.”
Does income mobility equalize longer-term incomes? New measures of an old concept (2010, methodology): “Why Equalizing Longer-Term Incomes Is Not the Same as Equalizing Single-Period Incomes As has been noted by many authors going back at least as far as Friedman (1962), equalization of longer-term incomes is a fundamentally different concept from equalization of single-period incomes.”