My article “What Entrepreneurship Can Teach Us About Life” was published in English by The Wall Street Journal. The article has since been translated into Portuguese and can be found at Libertarianismo.org. A PDF of the article is available here as well.
O que podemos aprender do empreendedorismo [PDF] Read More »
Over the next two weeks, I’m giving five talks in Santiago and one in Puerto Montt, Chile August 16, Faculty of Economics, University of Chile. “Ethics for Entrepreneurial Business Leaders.” (Drawing on my article “What Business Ethics Can Learn from Entrepreneurship.”) August 17: Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez: “Why Entrepreneurial Engineers Have Been This Generation’s Unacknowledged Ethical Leaders.” August 17:
Lecture tour in Chile, August 2016 Read More »
Irrational and unjust discrimination in the workplace deserves exposure and condemnation. But what about rational discrimination? Consider the following cases. * You are the chair of the hiring committee for a new president of a historically-black college. So you discriminate in favor of black candidates and against non-black candidates. * You are the owner of
How to Discriminate Properly [Good Life series] Read More »
Let me give you some examples of monopolies and ask: Which are good and which are bad? 1. Megan and Ramon begin dating and become enraptured of each other. Soon they are monopolizing each other’s time and decide to form a lifetime, exclusive relationship. 2. A town in a remote area has a few stores
Good Monopoly, Bad Monopoly: When Are Monopolies Actually a Problem? [Good Life series] Read More »
A perverse implication of minimum wage laws is their effect on volunteer work. Suppose politicians set a minimum wage at $10 per hour. Employers are now forbidden from offering a wage below $10 and employees are forbidden from accepting such wages. (Side note: See Adkins v. Children’s Hospital for the Supreme Court’s 1923 decision that
Should We Also Ban Volunteering? Read More »
Raise the topic of monopolies, and the ensuing discussion will quickly highlight ideological blind-spots. A colleague with whom I’ve taught courses in business and capitalism sent to me, enthusiastically, this article by Paul Krugman, a Nobel-Prize-winning economist. Krugman attacks Amazon and calls for it to be cut down a few notches. Amazon, he says, has
Who Is Really Serious About Monopolies? [Good Life series] Read More »
[This is a Portuguese translation of “Profits: Good, Bad, and Obscene”, originally published in English at EveryJoe.] Ninguém gosta de ter prejuízos, todavia, o lucro gera atitudes polarizadas. Como todos os fenômenos com alta carga moral — concorrência, riqueza, pobreza, propriedade — superar discussões muitas vezes confusas exige algumas distinções sutis. Vamos abordar o lucro por
Lucros: bons, ruins e obscenos [Portuguese translation] Read More »
My short article introducing business ethics, “The Best Work of the Best Minds,” has been republished as a Kindle e-publication and as an Audible audio edition narrated by Scott A. Smith. It was originally published in the IOS Journal. More of my publications in business ethics are at my Business Ethics page.
The Best Work of the Best Minds — republished Read More »