# Professor Baruch Lev's research on corporate taxation and social responsibility

1 January 2, 2016 The Economist ![The Economist logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/uat_025662.jpg?itok=1_MW1PTy)>

Excerpt from [The Economist](http://www.economist.com/news/business-and-finance/21684770-social-saints-fiscal-fiends-opinions-vary-whether-firms-can-be-socially-responsible) -- "[Baruch Lev](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/baruch-lev) of New York University has found that companies with higher CSR scores have higher revenue growth. Yet the more vigorous companies are in reducing their taxes, the more they destroy any social capital that they have accumulated through CSR."

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