This article is the first to reconstruct the intellectual history of Milton Friedman's criticism of business and its social responsibilities. Using original archival research and printed evidence, this article makes three major arguments. First, Friedman's criticisms of business and its social responsibilities evolved over time and emerged from persistent anxieties among economic liberals about monopoly, business interests, and political authority that were explicitly read from Adam Smith. Second, the article contributes to the emerging intellectual history of corporate social responsibility (CSR) by reconstructing the development of Friedman's criticisms, their transformations, and their reception within the context of American managerial thought from the 1950s to the 1980s. Finally, contextualizing Friedman's criticisms demonstrates his concern about decision-making logics within organizations, which in turn explains his belief that CSR would contribute to collectivization and enhances the understanding of neoliberal political thought.

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米尔顿·弗里德曼对企业社会责任批评的思想史

本文首次重构了米尔顿·弗里德曼对商业及其社会责任的批评的思想史。本文利用原始档案研究和印刷证据，提出了三个主要论点。首先，弗里德曼对企业及其社会责任的批评随着时间的推移而演变，并源于经济自由主义者对垄断、商业利益和政治权威的持续焦虑，这些焦虑明确地源自亚当·斯密。其次，本文通过重构弗里德曼的批评的发展、其转变以及在 20 世纪 50 年代至 1980 年代美国管理思想背景下的接受，为企业社会责任 (CSR) 的新兴思想史做出了贡献。最后，将弗里德曼的批评置于语境中表明了他对组织内部决策逻辑的关注，这反过来又解释了他的信念：企业社会责任将有助于集体化并增强对新自由主义政治思想的理解。