Serious Critiques of SRI

Serious Critiques of SRI Links

• Ben's Big Flop Sadly for those with high hopes for "Ben & Jerry's" move into helping third world rain forest workers, this expose tells it like it is and details what went wrong.
  
• Better World Editorial Jon Entine and Martha Nichols question simplistic approaches and contradictions of SR Corporate Codes of Conduct
  
• Archive of articles by Jon Entine Television producer, reporter, and author who specializes in sports and race, business ethics, socially responsible investing, and green brand marketing.
  
• Ethical Investing Contradictory issues in socially responsible determinations. A paper by Jon Entine.
  
• Clean Energy's not so clean facts Solar Utilities Network hosts this investigative piece by Jon Entine, exposing false claims by "green" energy businesses and organizations.
  
• Ask Mother Jones about SRI Doug Henwood's "Mutually Exclusive" article says socially responsible funds promise to help you do good as you do well. But they're only half-right because of contradictory criteria. Excellent critique of mainstream SR mutual funds.
  
• Corporate Ethics and Accountability Why All the Fuss About Stockholders. Jon Entine speaks up.
  
• Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac Could some darlings of Socially Responsible Investors (Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac) discriminate against minorities in mortgages?
  
• London Greenpeace on "The Body Shop." London Greenpeace provides scholarly, penetrating review of the hypocrisy and double dealing of this publicly traded, and "so called" ethical firm.
  
• McLibel: story of London Greenpeace and McDonald's Burgers McDonald's Restaurants Ltd - Stories about Health, Nutrition, Environmental, Animal Welfare, Employment, Social Awareness and very sneaky tactics by a firm that prefers to "look good" (responsible) by behaving very badly. McDonalds even hired seven spies to infiltrate London Greenpeace.
  
• Salon Ivory Tower First of two page article showing how MBA's ethics training may not bear fruit in the real world.
  
• Stanford seminar on SR Is Social Responsibility Possible? Brief paper argues ways that it can be.