Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has become a buzzword those days. A rich and dense scholarly literature has emerged over the last few years around the concept of CSR and its contemporary consequences (e.g. Aguinis and Glavas, 2012, Segerlund 2010, Matten and Moon 2008, Garriga and Melé...

In The Intellectuals and Socialism, a text written in 1949, Friedrich von Hayek argued for the tight collaboration between a small group of liberal Utopians and a broader network of what he called “secondhand dealers in ideas”. In the long laundry list he then proceeded to give, he did not...