Environmental Protection and the Social Responsibility of Firms: Perspectives from Law, Economics, and Business (Hardcover)

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