| Preface | |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| The Nature of the Question | p. 5 |
| Ideologies/Business Philosophies | p. 11 |
| The "Is/Ought" Confusion | p. 21 |
| Plan of the Study | p. 24 |
| Classical Liberalism | p. 27 |
| Minimal Government and Laissez-Faire | p. 31 |
| Political Economy and Moral Theory | p. 40 |
| Natural Rights and Social Contracts | p. 41 |
| Natural Rights Theory | p. 43 |
| Problems | p. 47 |
| The "Social Contract" | p. 51 |
| Actual Contracts | p. 54 |
| Tacit Contracts | p. 56 |
| Hypothetical Contracts | p. 59 |
| The Corporation and the Social Compact | p. 69 |
| Classical Liberalism and Utilitarianism: Friedman | p. 75 |
| Polestar: An Initial Formulation | p. 80 |
| Polestar and Rule Utilitarianism | p. 86 |
| The Ideal and the Actual | p. 93 |
| Conventional Rule Utilitarianism | p. 98 |
| Ideal Rule Utilitarianism | p. 104 |
| Friedman's Position | p. 105 |
| Evaluating the Utilitarian Defense of Classical Liberalism | p. 107 |
| The Inadequacy of Utilitarianism as a Theory of Obligation | p. 110 |
| Ordinal Measures of Utility | p. 114 |
| Collective Choice Procedures: The Impossibility Theorem | p. 117 |
| Paretian Notions | p. 120 |
| Further Limitations | p. 123 |
| Conclusion | p. 126 |
| Freedom and Well-Being in the Liberal Tradition | p. 127 |
| Utility and Purple Balloons | p. 130 |
| Adam Smith | p. 131 |
| Utility and Well-Being | p. 135 |
| Micro-Managerialism | p. 141 |
| Revisionist Liberalism and Managerialism | p. 146 |
| The Big Change/The New Age | p. 154 |
| The Managerial Revolution | p. 163 |
| Managerial Professionalism | p. 170 |
| Evaluating Micro-Managerialism | p. 179 |
| Descriptive Thesis of Social Responsibility | p. 179 |
| Moral Arguments for Social Responsibility | p. 186 |
| Managerial Discretion | p. 198 |
| Macro-Managerialism | p. 209 |
| Social Responsibility: The Committee on Economic Development | p. 210 |
| Keynesianism | p. 222 |
| Oligopoly, Monopoly, and Externalities | p. 230 |
| The Meaning of Corporate Responsibility in a Pluralist Framework | p. 235 |
| Descriptive Pluralism | p. 236 |
| Prescriptive Pluralism | p. 248 |
| Managerialism and Prescriptive Pluralism | p. 256 |
| Conclusion | p. 266 |
| Liberalism and the Corporation: The Challenge of the Global Market | p. 267 |
| Global Competitive Markets and the Transnational Corporation | p. 271 |
| Notes | p. 289 |
| Bibliography | p. 325 |
| Index | p. 337 |
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