{"id":14,"date":"2005-01-25T21:11:49","date_gmt":"2005-01-26T01:11:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/2005\/01\/25\/the-good-company\/"},"modified":"2005-01-25T21:11:49","modified_gmt":"2005-01-26T01:11:49","slug":"the-good-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/2005\/01\/25\/the-good-company\/","title":{"rendered":"The Good Company"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Jan 20th 2005
\n
From The Economist print edition
\n<\/font><\/font>The movement for corporate social responsibility has won the battle of ideas. That is a pity, argues Clive Crook (interviewed here<\/a>)<\/b><\/font>

\nOVER the past ten years or so, corporate social responsibility (CSR<\/font>) has blossomed as an idea, if not as a coherent practical programme. CSR<\/font>
\ncommands the attention of executives everywhere—if their public
\nstatements are to be believed—and especially that of the managers of
\nmultinational companies headquartered in Europe or the United States…<\/font><\/p>\n

On the face
\nof it, this marks a significant victory in the battle of ideas. The
\nwinners are the charities, non-government organisations and other
\nelements of what is called civil society that pushed for CSR<\/font>
\nin the first place… In fact, their opponents never turned up…
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

CSR <\/font>cannot
\nbe a substitute for wise policies … In several
\nlittle-noticed respects, it is already a hindrance to them. If left
\nunchallenged, it could well become more so.
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

The above excerpts are from the introduction to the Economist<\/span>‘s
\n(Jan. 22) survey of corporate social responsibility. Although we often disagree
\nwith that libertarian magazine’s placing all its faith in markets, it
\ndoes well to slow down the paradoxically politically correct CSR bandwagon that leads corporations to supplant governments.<\/span>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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