Milton Friedman

I will introduce as those like Milton Friedman who opposed CSR as the only obligation a business had was to “make as much money as possible while conforming to the basic rules of society” and to not simply do this would be to disadvantage the…

The Effects of Goverment Intervention Within Economy Source one is a direct quote from Milton Friedman illustrating his perspective and opinion on the market economy. Within the quote, Friedman is directly voicing his belief that the only logical way for an economy to be ran is through means of private ownership and investment. In his mind, interference from the government only disables the everyday consumer from living in what he thinks should be a free society. Within his quote he states,…

A famous economist who goes by the name of Milton Friedman addresses the argument of social safety nets in one of his essays that he writes. One of the first points he addresses is that he believes luck and race play no role in determining what you receive from inheritance or other factors. Friedman then makes an analogy with social safety nets with two main different point of views. First, he makes a hypothetical supposing…

In his article, The Social Responsibility of Business is to Increase its Profits, Milton Friedman argues that the only duty of a company towards society, referred to as a social responsibility, is to work towards the best interest of its owners; usually to maximize profits within the confines of the law . As a company is not an intelligent being, Friedman uses corporate executives as the primary subject of most of his arguments. As an employee of a firm’s owners, an executive is under legal…

article “It’s a Flat World, After All,” published in the New York Times in 2005, Thomas Friedman discusses how technology and globalization are rapidly allowing work to be done from anywhere in the world, reducing the West’s economic dominance. Furthermore, he characterizes globalization as an exhaustive and revolutionary transformation in which the entire globe becomes deeply and permanently interconnected. Friedman establishes that the world has been “flattened” as the result of global…

for people to be able to reconnect with cultures different from there’s. Thomas Loren Friedman, three time Pulitzer Prize winner, and current writer for the New York Times foreign affairs column since 1995, is a famous journalist who took a closer look into Globalization. Covering the topic in his prologue “Globalization: The Super- Story,” from his book Longitudes and Attitudes, Thomas Friedman uses…

social networking, Gmail, blogger getting a job in this company; people might think you need a higher lever degree or good GPA. Well after reading this article it pointed out that a high GPA or scores are worthless as a criteria hiring. Thomas L. Friedman, interviewed Laszlo Bock, the senior vice president of people operations for Google he does the hiring process. In interview he mentioned that Google has five hiring attributes and they are very strike with those rules. This article was…

Planning theory developed from a range of disciplines. It borrows ideas from economics, sociology, political science, psychology and geography. From these disciplines, planning has adopted ideas which are applied to the planning process to arrive at normative prescriptions of how planning is to be done. According to Alexander, planning practice needs a theory of what planning is or should be, and theory provides scientific explanation and description of facts. Planning used to be viewed as an…

Thomas Friedman reminds us, “the average and the dumb…were made that way. They were shaped in large measure by school systems” (314). Children are being taught to be average. Sir Kenneth Robinson explains how: “They’ve spent ten years at school being told there’s…

“The playing field is being leveled” states Thomas Friedman in his bestselling book The world is Flat.1 What Thomas Friedman is referring to is globalization of our world with the advent of new technologies and communications. Gone are the barriers to collaboration as you can now reach out quickly and easily over waters, mountains and boarders to instantly get or send information, collaborate, or market. This leveling has occurred across many industries such as retail, communication and more…