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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

How Corporations Help Society

To the Editor:

Milton Friedman once wrote "there is one and only one social responsibility of business -- to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits."

Yet Caroline Williams of the Nathan Cummings Foundation ("A Focus on Corporate Responsibility," Endowments supplement, August 4) apparently thinks that the purpose of business...

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