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A Responsibility Revolution
"We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals," FDR said in 1937, in the midst of the Great Depression. "We know now that it is bad economies." We have learned this all. But even amid the Great Recession of 2009, people have been trading in their SUVs for Priuses, buying record amounts of fair-trade coffee and investing in socially responsible funds at higher rates than ever before. What we are discovering now, in the most uncertain economy since FDR’s time, is that enlightened self-interest—call it a shared sense of responsibility—is good economics.
America has always been a great laboratory of social innovation, from Ben Franklin’s creation of the volunteer fire department and the lending library to the rise of online collectives like Wikipedia and Facebook. Usually it has been an invention, some innovation in commerce—the car, the light bulb, the television—that has changed how we
A. The change of the mind of consumers to spend cautiously.
B. The effort of the companies to be environmental.
C. The effort of the companies to be sustainable.
D. The behavior of the citizen to spend responsibly.