Friedman with derrida

Business and Society Review

Volumn 112, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 511-532

  Jones, Campbell ^a,b,c  

^a Centre for Philosophy and Political Economy   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c Department of International Economics and Management   (Denmark)

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EID: 36448942452     PISSN: 00453609     EISSN: 14678594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8594.2007.00307.x     Document Type: Article

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1. M. Friedman, "The monetary theory and policy of Henry Simons," Journal ofLaw and Economics, X (1967): 1-13. Quote on p. 1.
2. J. Derrida, "Plato's pharmacy," in Dissemination, trans. Barbara Johnson (London: Athlone, 1981), p. 65. I have substituted "vocabulary" for Johnson's "lexicon" as a more straightforward rendering of lexique.
3. B. W. Husted and J. de Jesus Salazar, "Taking Friedman seriously: Maximising profits and social performance," Journal of Management Studies, 43, 1 (2006): 75-91.
4. The effort to read Friedman seriously presages note 4, below (see in particular Austin, p. 9 and Derrida, "Limited Inc," p. 34).
5. On speech acts see, in particular, J. L. Austin, How to Do Things with Words (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1962).
6. In the present context see also J. Derrida, "Signature, event, context" and "Limited lne a b c" in Limited Inc., 1-23 and 29-110 (Evanstan, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1988).
7. M. Friedman, Capitalism and Freedom (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1962);
8. "The social responsibility of business is to increase its profits" New YorkTimes Magazine, 13 September 1970: 32-33 and 122-126.
9. Alongside these texts, and for readers of this journal, we should take note of an interview that appeared as the leading article in the opening volume of this journal, Business & Society Review, in 1972.
10. See M. Friedman, "Milton Friedman responds" Business & Society Review, 1 (Spring 1972): 5-16.
11. This 1972 interview is later reprinted in chapter 11 of There's No Such Thing as a Free Lunch (LaSalle, IL: Open Court, 1975).
12. It is perhaps worth noting that, in the collection There's No Such Thing as a Free Lunch,
13. Friedman notes in his preface that he elected to replace the 1970 New York Times Magazine
14. article with the 1972 Business & Society Review interview.
15. Friedman does not attribute this choice to the discovery of the infelicitous speech act that we will discuss shortly, but rather, explains that the later interview "covers the same subject but also ranges more widely" (There's No Such Thing as a Free Lunch, p. xi).
16. We might also note, in passing, that the editor of the first issue of the Business & Society Review, while happy to publish Friedman's 1972 interview as the leading article, was at the same time keen to distance himself from the content of what he perceived to be Friedman's thesis. Such oscillations continue, perhaps to the current day.
17. Among Friedman's later discussions of the social responsibilities of business see, for example, S. London, "Lunch with the FT: Milton Friedman" Financial Times, 6 June 2003, online at www.ft.com;
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