Atlas Shrugged — the movie trailer
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Successful nations and the British empire
One measure of a nation’s success is its economic health: how free are a nation’s citizens to pursue their own economic goals, and how wealthy on average are its citizens? Almost always the wealthy countries are those that enjoy a significant degree of the economic freedom. (See the chart in the image; click to enlarge.)
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Designing for ease of customer use
Striking data on the sometimes low levels of customer tolerance, knowledge, and experimentalism: “A study by Elke den Ouden of the Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands found that nearly half of the products returned by consumers for refunds are in perfect working order, but their new owners couldn’t figure out how to use
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Three lectures at Cato-IHS seminar
I will be giving a series of three lectures this summer at the “Liberty and Current Issues” seminar sponsored jointly by the Cato Institute and the Institute for Humane Studies. The seminar runs the week of July 2–8 at the Catholic University in Washington, D.C. As the dates get nearer, I will post my lecture
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“Post-Postmodern Art” translated
My four-page essay “Post-Postmodern Art” was translated into Serbo-Croatian by Alma Causevic. The essay was originally published in The Newberry Manifesto in 2001 and is also available in English in a re-print edition with images of the relevant works [pdf].
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Populist capitalism in literature
I’ll be giving a talk at the 2011 APEE conference in April. My title is “Cameron Hawley, Henry Kitchell Webster, and Populist Capitalism in Literature.” Here is the abstract: In the early and middle part of the twentieth-century, Hawley and Webster were strong-selling authors of novels that dramatized themes of business ethics and political economy.
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Reading group on two works by Nietzsche
Matthew Flamm and Shawn Klein, my two Philosophy colleagues at Rockford College, will be leading a discussion group on Friedrich Nietzsche’s 1872 The Birth of Tragedy and his 1887 Genealogy of Morals. The image links to the flyer (designed by Christopher Vaughan) with the schedule and location information. Both books are wonderfully provocative. So if
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Kaizen 15 — the Eduardo Marty interview
The latest issue of Kaizen [pdf] features my interview with the excellent Eduardo Marty, founder of Junior Achievement in Argentina as well as in several other south and central American countries — including Cuba, before he and his professors were arrested for teaching entrepreneurship and kicked out of the country. The theme of the interview
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