HW, ch

HW, ch. 6, deals with the issue of the "Social Responsibility" of business. Central to this is the consideration of those who suffer the consequences of a corporation's or manager's decisions. (In The Corporation, this is referred to as 'externalities'.) As we have seen, the same issue was at stake in the experiment conceived and conducted by Stanley Milgram. A majority of the participants followed the orders of the scientist/'authority figure,' and to "do this", they had to ignore their own sense of duty toward others. Do the results the Milgram experiment teach us anything about the social responsibility of corporations?