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"When I hear businessmen speak eloquently about the 'social 
responsibilities of business in a free-enterprise system,' I am reminded of 
the wonderful line about the Frenchman who dicovered at the age of 70 that 
he had been speaking prose all his life.  The businessmen believe that they 
are defending free enterprise when they declaim that business is not 
concerned 'merely' with profit but also with promoting desirable 'social 
ends; that business has a social conscience' and takes seriously its 
responsibilities for providing employment, eliminating discrimination, 
avoiding pollution and whatever else may be the catchwords of the 
contemporary crop of reformers.  In fact they are--or would be if they or 
anyone else took them seriously--preaching pure and unadulterated 
socialism. Businessmen who talk this way are unwitting puppets of the 
intellectual forces that have been undermining the basis of a free society 
these past decades." 
 
This is the opening paragraph of the article, and you can find it reprinted 
in all ten editions of TAKING SIDES: CLASHING VIEWS ON CONTROVERSIAL 
ECONOMIC ISSUES, Thomas Swartz and Frank Bonello, eds. McGraw-Hill/Dushkin, 
2002 [10th ed]. 
 
Sam Bostaph 
 
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