Joint event - Father Edgar Thivierge Distinguished Speaker Series and Management Research Seminar Series - David Chan Smith
How Milton Friedman Read his Adam Smith: the Liberal Suspicion of Business and the Critique of Corporate Social Responsibility
***M.Sc. Students in Management, this event can count towards one of the six mandatory Research Seminars Series needed to attend (MGT6991).***
David Chan Smith, PhD.
Associate Professor of History, Wilfrid Laurier University
Milton Friedman's critique of business and its social responsibilities has influenced management thinking for the past decades. But do we really know why he made this claim? This paper at the Telfer School of Management discusses Friedman's historical development and provides a surprising explanation for his suspicion of social responsibility.
About the Speaker
David Chan Smith is an intellectual historian at Wilfrid Laurier University. He has published widely on British and Atlantic history from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century and is currently leading projects exploring the history of corruption, clandestine economies and moral markets. Most recently, his research has appeared in Past & Present(link) on smuggling and market formation, and Enterprise & Society(link) on how moral ideas have shaped organizational development.
