Table of Contents

About the Contributors
Overview
The Four Questions of Corporate Social Responsibility: May They, Can They, Should They, Do They?
Bruce L. Hay, Robert N. Stavins, and Richard H. K. Vietor
Part I: The Legal Perspective
Corporate Managers Operational Discretion to Sacrifice Corporate Profits in the Public Interest
Einer R. Elhauge
Comments on Elhauge:
Does Greater Managerial Freedom to Sacrifice Profits Lead to Higher Social Welfare?
John J. Donohue
On Sacrificing Profits in the Public Interest
Mark J. Roe
Summary of Discussion
Part II: The Economic Perspective
Corporate Social Responsibility: An Economic and Public Policy Perspective
Paul R. Portney
Comments on Portney:
Does Corporate Social Responsibility Have to Be Unprofitable?
Dennis J. Aigner
On Portney‘s Complaint:
Reconceptualizing Corporate Social Responsibility
Daniel C. Esty
Summary of Discussion
Part III: The Business Perspective
Environmental Protection and the Social Responsibility of Firms: Perspectives from the Business Literature
Forest L. Reinhardt
Comments on Reinhardt:
Ethics, Risk, and the Environment in Corporate Responsibility
Eric W. Orts
Opportunities for and Limitations of Corporate Environmentalism
David Vogel
Summary of Discussion
Index

About the Author

Bruce L. Hay is a professor of law at Harvard Law School. Robert N. Stavins is the Albert Pratt Professor of Business and Government at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. Richard H. K. Vietor is the Senator John Heinz Professor of Environmental Management at the Harvard Business School. Distinguished contributors to this book include Einer Elhauge and Mark Roe of Harvard Law School; John Donohue and Daniel Esty of Yale Law School; Paul Portney of Resources for the Future; Dennis Aigner of the University of California, Santa Barbara; Forest Reinhardt of Harvard Business School; Eric Orts of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania; and David Vogel of the University of California, Berkeley.

Reviews

'Resources for the Future has published a stimulating new book which showcases differing views on the topic of corporate social responsibility. . . . [These issues] are argued back and forth with verve and spirit. Well worth reading if you want to understand the important stakes at the heart of the CSR debate.'
The Environmental Forum