On Fri, 23 Jun 2006 12:12:24 -0400, Andrew Gideon
wrote:

On Fri, 23 Jun 2006 15:59:13 +0000, Jose wrote:

How many
corporations are innately "responsible"? (that is, would Do The Right
Thing absent any rules, and in the presence of competitors who do not)?

You're not quite asking the right question. Let's assume that there were
some companies that were to behave "responsibly". The real question is:
would they survive in the face of competition from other companies
behaving "irresponsibly"?

Responsibility is a lot to ask of a dumb animal. You use carrots and
sticks. The argument I'm hearing here is: too many sticks, not enough
carrots." There may be some bad carrots, too. My bugbear is tax laws
that force investors to focus too much on quarterly numbers.

Don