Professor Jerry Kirkpatrick gave a talk at Rockford College on October 27 on “The Importance of Philosophy to Business.” Dr. Kirkpatrick is Professor of International Business at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. His talk was sponsored by the Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship. In the following two-part interview after his talk, I speak with Dr. […]
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Entrepreneur magazine is a leading monthly in the field, and each year it has a feature on top colleges for entrepreneurship, along with a list of other colleges that offer entrepreneurship programs. This year for the first time Rockford College and the Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship are included. Here is where Rockford College appears
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Here’s a 55-second video clip about CEE‘s winning a 2009 Templeton Freedom Award from the Atlas Economic Research Foundation: This video is also posted at AERF’s Atlas Network site.
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Two talks at TED on music, leadership, and passion. In my next life, I think I want to be a musician. Itay Talgam: Benjamin Zander: https://www.ted.com/talks/benjamin_zander_the_transformative_power_of_classical_music.
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The insightful Shikha Dalmia, senior policy analyst at Reason and a columnist for Forbes, in a 6.5 minute video interview for Reason.tv, on two of my favorite topics: India, and movies about India:
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I’m browsing Robert K. Massie’s excellent Peter the Great, a book that won the Pulitzer Prize in 1981, and came again across this quotation that struck me on my first reading years ago. The context is Peter’s trip to western Europe—an unheard of thing for Russian czars to do. His objective was the Europe that
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[This is the Bibliography for Nietzsche and the Nazis.] Nietzsche and the Nazis—Bibliography Ahern, Daniel R. 1995. Nietzsche as Cultural Physician. Pennsylvania State University Press. Allison, David B. 2001. Reading the New Nietzsche. Rowman and Littlefield. Anchor, Robert. 1972. Germany Confronts Modernization, German Culture and Society, 1790-1890. D. C. Heath. Barkai, Avraham. 1990. Nazi Economics:
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From Gurcharan Das’s India Unbound, on education since 1947, when India became independent of Britain and tried democratic politics mixed with heavily top-down, government-run economic planning: “The story of education in free India is a sad one. The government created a vast number of schools, practically free, after Independence. But they were so uniformly bad
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