The promotion of Free Enterprise as an American ideal originates in libertarian and conservative responses to the New Deal. Rippa (1958, 1959) shows how free enterprise was promoted in school textbooks. St. John (2010) examines its promotion in newspapers. Fines-Wolf (1994) examines the promotion of free enterprise ideals by National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) in the post-war period.
The ethics of the free enterprise system has also been a subject of discussion.
Erteszek (1982) asserts that "the moral basis of a free enterprise system faces both new and persistent challenges... these challenges cannot be met without a new, ethical vision of private enterprise, and a reconfiguration of the moral purpose of corporate life... The experience of history indicates that man will not act nobly, with compassion and fidelity, simply out of enlightened self-interest... the new vision needed by modern man and woman is to be found not in self-interest but in Judeo-Christian virtues... the Judeo-Christian system has the power to transform modern man and to stimulate him to a life of service, stewardship and compassion."
Wishloff (2003) argues that "an economic system of responsible free enterprise.. [would] be accompanied by a sense of social and moral responsibility which might have to be encouraged and enforced by the government... Our enterprises, taken as a whole, are not fulfilling their social and moral responsibilities... the root cause of [this problem is] adherence to the metaphysics of material scientism... Common sense realism is proposed as a more suitable alternative."
==Free Enterprise as Response to New Deal==
'''Erteszek, Jan J. 1982. “Corporate Enterprise and Christian Ethics.” Review of Social Economy 40 (3): 323–329.'''
journal = {Corporate ethics and corporate governance},
year = {2007},
pages = {173--178},
file = {[PDF] from umich.edu:files/99/Friedman - 2007 - The social responsibility of business is to increa.pdf:application/pdf;Snapshot:files/100/978-3-540-70818-6.html:text/html}
}
==Students' Hostility to Free Enterprise (from the late 1970s)==
'''Kilpatrick, James L. 1975. “Why Students Are Hostile to Free Enterprise.” College Store Journal 42 (6): 92–3.'''
@article{kilpatrick_why_1975,
title = {Why {Students} {Are} {Hostile} to {Free} {Enterprise}.},
volume = {42},
url = {https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ126144},
abstract = {A Gallup study is described, which was commissioned by Oklahoma State Christian College
regarding the philosophical orientation of college students generally (liberal or
}
'''Metzner, Henry E., and Edwin C. Sims. 1978. “Student Attitudes toward the Free Enterprise System.” The Journal of Economic Education 10 (1): 46–50. doi:10.2307/1182166.'''
@article{metzner_student_1978,
volume = {10},
issn = {0022-0485},
url = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/1182166},
doi = {10.2307/1182166},
abstract = {Over 56 percent of the respondents to the survey felt large companies engaged in
==Reagan Administration==
'''Cavanach, Gerald E. 1982. “Free Enterprise Values: Delayed Gratification or Immediate Fulfillment.” Review of Social Economy 40 (3): 330–339.
abstract = {When Adam Smith died 200 years ago today, the event was greeted in the Times by a
supercilious obituary which alleged that he had courted local opinion in a commercial town
file = {[PDF] from hetsa.org.au:files/64/Winch - 1991 - Adam Smith the prophet of free enterprise.pdf:application/pdf;Snapshot:files/73/10370196.1991.html:text/html}
}
==Critics of Free Enterprise==
# '''Arnold, N. Scott. 1990. “Economists and Philosophers as Critics of the Free Enterprise System.” The Monist 73 (4): 621–641.'''
@article{arnold_economists_1990,
==Arthur C. Brooks==
@book{brooks_road_2012, title = {The road to freedom: how to win the fight for free enterprise}'''Brooks, shorttitle = {The road to freedom}, url = {http://booksArthur C.google2011.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=5tNvv4I4Z4IC&oi=fnd&pg=PA3&dq=infoThe Battle:9XgI-cmWyN8J:scholar.googleHow the Fight between Free Enterprise and Big Government Will Shape America’s Future.com&ots=izIJ1ScO7I&sig=uJPX-iEWTQlejSZ5WckAuQB_sIA}, urldate = {2017-07-19}, publisher = {Basic Books (AZ)}, author = {Brooks, Arthur C.}, year = {2012}, file = {Snapshot:files/70/books.html:text/html}}'''
@book{brooks_battle:_2011,
title = {The battle: {How} the fight between free enterprise and big government will shape {America}'s future},
abstract = {Abstract Memorandum from future Supreme Court Justice Lewis F. Powell to the US
Chamber of Commerce. This document came to be widely known as the Powell
}
==Evolutionary Psychology==
'''Richerson, Peter, and Rob Boyd. 2008. “The Evolution of Free Enterprise Values.” https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id==Evolutionary Psychology==929169.'''
@article{richerson_evolution_2008,
title = {The evolution of free enterprise values},