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  • Editors’ Note

  • Journal:
    Business History Review / Volume 90 / Issue 4 / Winter 2016
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    16 March 2017, p. 621
    Print publication:
    Winter 2016
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  • The Politics of Corporate Social Responsibility in American Health Care and Home Loans

  • Christy Ford Chapin
  • Journal:
    Business History Review / Volume 90 / Issue 4 / Winter 2016
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    19 October 2016, pp. 647-670
    Print publication:
    Winter 2016

  • Corporate social responsibility (CSR) became an important subject among business leaders during the post–World War II era. Business leaders often used the idea of CSR to explain actions they took to prevent additional government involvement in their industry. They argued that because they were behaving in a socially responsible manner, further federal programming was unnecessary. The cases of health insurance and home mortgages demonstrate how this political approach frequently required business leaders to alter their profitmaking strategies in order to substantiate their argument before the public. Thus, the history of corporate social responsibility is critical for understanding a hidden facet of American political development.

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