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“People should become aware that the difficulties we are confronting are not just the difficulties caused by bad, greedy guys in an otherwise good system”. The Marxist philosopher Slavoj Zizek[...]
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Raising the Bar on CSR
Can and should companies be in the business of doing good? This long-running debate was graced earlier this year by a new contribution from Michael Porter, one of the world’s leading[...]
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Of Profits and Philanthropy
In the good old days, when he used to write engaging articles about economics, the Nobel Prize winning economist Paul Krugman took on the urgent and pressing issue of how[...]
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Can An Oil Company Get To Heaven?
“In thirty years at Shell no one has ever called me an angel or a philanthropist”, joked the oil giant’s head of exploration Malcolm Brinded at a celebration marking the 10th anniversary of[...]
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“Bah! Humbug!” in the Wall Street Journal
Two recent articles in the Wall Street Journal have taken shots at elements of philanthrocapitalism – the idea, endorsed by many of the most successful capitalists, that capitalism needs to[...]
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Is CSR Evil?
Is corporate social responsibility to blame for the oil spill in the Gulf or for the meltdown of the global financial system in late 2008? This accusation has been made[...]
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I Don’t Know Much About Philanthrocapitalism But…
“Philanthrocapitalism is quite frankly the worst CSR-related idea I’ve come across in a long, long time” and “the idea of philanthrocapitalism must die a quick and painless death,” writes Wayne[...]
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Citizen WalMart
It was not long ago that nobody interested in making a better world would ever have a good thing to say about WalMart, the giant American retailer, and owner of[...]
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Slate on Philanthrocapitalism
Georgia Levenson Keohane reviewed Philanthrocapitalism for Slate magazine, hailing it as “exceptional” and saying that it “should be required reading in any MBA or public policy program”. Georgia thinks we should[...]
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Don’t Just Do It
Some people question whether companies can really bring anything unique to solving society’s most difficult problems. An interesting example of how they can make a difference recently came to our[...]
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Matthew Bishop is the US Business Editor and New York Bureau Chief of The Economist. Mr. Bishop was previously the magazine's London-based Business Editor.
Michael Green is an economist and writer, based in London. He is an adviser to the Big Society Network and a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. Read more.