The Undercover Historian

“This year’s prize is about stabilization” was the sentence with which Ellen Moons, Secretary General of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, introduced the not-true-Nobel-but-Nobel-still prize for economics this morning (a physicist, she is the first w…

A historian’s perspective on how to deal with the Nobel frenzy I generally try to stay away from the Economics Nobel frenzy, if only because the hyper-personalization of scientific achievements it entails it at odds with how we historians understand credit

Histories of Corporate Social Responsibility, part 2 In my first post, I examined existing research on the context, meaning and legacy of Milton Friedman’s 1970 New York Times essay – the focal point of most histories of Corporate Social Responsibility (C…

Histories of Corporate Social Responsibility, part 1 Part 2 is now live Stop blaming Milton Friedman?

It’s a long week, itself nested in an endless stream of harrowing news.

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