October 27: Is the USA a “Capitalist” Nation? Two narratives govern our recent thinking, debating, and blame-gaming about the economy: (1) We’re a capitalist nation, and our troubles are the fault of capitalism, (2) We’re a mixed economy, and our troubles stem from the anti-capitalist elements of the mixture. How do we first sort out […]
This week on the Atlas University course on Socialism we feature the Executive Summary of George Orwell’s “Review of The Totalitarian Enemy by F. Borkenau.” Orwell was clear-eyed about the dangers of authoritarian socialisms in Germany and Russia. In this 1940 review of The Totalitarian Enemy by Franz Borkenau, Orwell weighs the socialist credentials of Adolf Hitler’s
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Por Stephen R. C. Hicks, Ph.D. Translated into Spanish by Fermin Elizalde and Maria Marty. Para más artículos en español: https://www.stephenhicks.org/espanol/. Original version in English: “13 arguments for liberal capitalism in 13 minutes.” Also Portuguese and German translations. These quick overview arguments were later developed into my primer book Liberalism Pro and Con.
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In the second session from this open-to-the-public course we will be asking: Is the USA a “Capitalist” Nation? Two narratives govern our recent thinking, debating, and blame-gaming about the economy: (1) We’re a capitalist nation, so our troubles are the fault of capitalism, (2) We’re a mixed economy, and our troubles stem from the anti-capitalist
This unit on Socialism features Stephen Hicks’s “Your Sex Life Under Socialism.” Here’s the logic: “If human beings are the most important means of production and socialism means collective ownership of the means of production, then socialism means collective ownership of human beings. And if human beings are produced by sexual reproduction and socialism is
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Qué nos pueden enseñar los emprendimientos acerca de la vida Por Stephen R. C. Hicks, Ph.D. Tomar riesgos y experimentar son cosas que todos podemos hacer, y no sólo en nuestras carreras. The Wall Street Journal. Para más artículos en español: https://www.stephenhicks.org/espanol/ The original article in English: What Entrepreneurship Can Teach Us About Life Taking
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My new live, online, and open-to-the-public course will begin by asking: What Is Capitalism? We will look at several influential definitions, and I will argue my way to mine. When: Wednesday, October 13, 7 p.m. Central Time. Where: MyJunto. Registration is free and open to anyone interested. . While the course has no prerequisites, the
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Publicado pela primeira vez em Inglês: “What Business Ethics Can Learn from Entrepreneurship,” Journal of Private Enterprise, 2009. Portugués: HTML. PDF. Tradução por Matheus Pacini. Revisão por Vinicius Cintra, 2014.Resumo: O empreendedorismo é cada vez mais estudado como um fenômeno econômico fundamental e fundacional, porém, cada vez menos como um fenômeno ético. A ética empresarial
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