I will be visiting the University of Casimir the Great in Bydgoszcz, Poland, to give two education-related talks: Thursday, May 15: Educating for Entrepreneurship. Friday, May 16: Doctoral Seminar on The Question of Education and Postmodern Thought. Many thanks to Professor Piotr Kostyło for the invitation to speak with his students and colleagues. Of course […]
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On May 14, I’ll be in Toruń, Poland, at Nicholas Copernicus University to give a talk entitled “Two Narratives of Modernity: Enlightenment and Postmodern.” Thanks to Professors Marek N. Jakubowski and Przemek Zientkowski for the invitation. Additionally — how delightful to visit the home town of the historically-significant Nicholas Copernicus!
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My essay “What Business Ethics Can Learn from Entrepreneurship” has been translated in Portuguese by Matheus Pacini and Vinicius Cintra. Here is “O que a ética empresarial pode aprender com o empreendedorismo” in HTML or PDF. Other versions: “What Business Ethics Can Learn from Entrepreneurship” [pdf]. Originally published in Journal of Private Enterprise, 24(2), Spring
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“O que a ética empresarial pode aprender com o empreendedorismo” [pdf] Stephen R. C. Hicks Departamento de Filosofia e Centro para a Ética e Empreendedorismo Rockford University, Illinois, USA Publicado pela primeira vez em Inglês em The Journal of Private Enterprise 24(2), 2009, 49-57. Tradução por Matheus Pacini. Revisão por Vinicius Cintra, 2014. Resumo O
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The one-hour video of my lecture is at the Atlas Society site and at YouTube. The lecture starts at 3:40, after the introduction, and is about 45 minutes long, followed by a question-and-answer session. The sub-topics are: * 13 initial arguments for liberal capitalism. * Some quotations from Mises, Schumpeter, Jouvenel, Smith, Hayek, Mill, Rand,
In the wake of a recent wave of controversial thinkers being disinvited* from universities, here is a classic quotation from Yale historian C. Vann Woodward on true education: “The purpose of the university is not to make its members feel secure, content, or good about themselves, but to provide a forum for the new, the
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At the book-release event in Stockolm hosted by Timbro, my publisher, I talked about the book for about 15 minutes. Moderator Thomas Gür then asked me good questions and helped direct questions from the audience. The program is in English, except for Adam Cwejman’s initial introduction, and lasts for about an hour. (The screenshot is
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With much thanks to Matheus Pacini for his work on the transcription, below is the text for my “13 arguments for liberal capitalism in 13 minutes.” The original videos are at YouTube. The graphic integration of the arguments in a flowchart is here. And here’s the transcript in PDF. 13 Arguments for Liberal Capitalism in
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