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Thursday, 5 May 2011

Cases For/Against Social Responsibility

Often it can be helpful to look at arguments from two extreme sides of the point.  Even though they might not be particularly balanced, they do provide arguments which you could use as a starting point in an essay.  You could then pick up evaluation points by providing that all-important balance.

For the extreme side of the case against CSR, check out the libertarian think-tank The Adam Smith Institute:

http://www.adamsmith.org/

This website is where I found this quote from a proponent against CSR, Milton Friedman:

http://www.adamsmith.org/blog/tax-and-economy/friedman-on-corporate-responsibility/

This has a nice contrast with the following website.  It appears to be a CSR consultant who has lots of good info (and case studies) about why CSR is so good:

http://www.mallenbaker.net/

The following is something I pulled of his site, where he goes through the arguments against CSR and then gives his own rebuttal to each one.  This would be great stuff to pull up if you wanted to think about how to qualify your essay points in a response:

http://www.mallenbaker.net/csr/against.php

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