Business Ethics

Video Interview with Professor Nicholas Capaldi — Transcript

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Interview conducted at Rockford University by Stephen Hicks and sponsored by the Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship. Hicks: Our guest today is Professor Nicholas Capaldi, who is the Legendre-Soulé Professor of Business Ethics at Loyola University in New Orleans. Professor Capaldi was here lecturing on business ethics. You framed your discussion on business ethics in […]

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Video Interview with John Chisholm — Transcript

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Interview conducted at Rockford University by Stephen Hicks and sponsored by the Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship. Hicks: Our guest today is John Chisholm. John is a serial entrepreneur in Silicon Valley, now based in San Francisco, involved in a number of ventures. And he was here today talking to the Business and Economic Ethics

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Upcoming keynote speech (and one other) in Nanjing, China

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I will be participating in the 2nd International Conference on CSR, Sustainability, Ethics & Governance, Building New Bridges Between Business & Society, to be held in Nanjing, P.R., China, from July 29 to 31 and hosted by the Nanjing University of Finance and Economics. My contributions to the conference will be two talks. One will

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Ayn Rand e a ética empresarial contemporânea

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Stephen R. C. Hicks, Ph. D. Tradução pro Matheus Pacini e revisão por Vinicius Cintra Originally published in English as “Ayn Rand and Contemporary Business Ethics”, Journal of Accounting, Ethics & Public Policy 3:1 (2003), pp. 1-26 Introdução: negócios e uma sociedade livre Os defensores de uma sociedade livre consideram os negócios como parte integral

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Corrupção — a regulamentação governamental ajuda?

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Coisas ruins acontecem no livre mercado. Algumas pessoas mentem, utilizam atalhos, cometem fraudes e passam cheques sem fundo. Outros não cumprem contratos, oferecem ou aceitam suborno, pagam propina, roubam e assim por diante. Frequentemente isso se traduz em argumentos em prol da regulamentação governamental. O livre mercado maximiza a liberdade, diz o argumento, dando mais oportunidades

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*Virtues in Entrepreneurship* anthology published by Ratio Institute

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My essay “Virtue, Entrepreneurial Ethics, and Corporate Social Responsibility” has been published in Virtue in Entrepreneurship, edited by Nils Karlson, Mikolaj Norek, and Karl Wennberg (Stockholm: Ratio Institute, 2015). Other contributors include Deirdre McCloskey, Eugene Heath, Art Carden, Lynette Osiemo, Robert Gemmel, David Lipka, Elina Fergin, and Rasmus Nykvist. The book is available in Sweden

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Portuguese translation of “Ayn Rand and Contemporary Business Ethics”

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“Ayn Rand e a ética empresarial contemporânea” [pdf] Stephen R. C. Hicks Tradução pro Matheus Pacini Revisão por Vinicius Cintra 2015 The original journal article in English is available as a PDF here, online at the Social Science Research Network, in Kindle e-book format, and in a monograph edition from Amazon.com. Here are the four

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Existe discriminação racional?

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Discriminação injusta e irracional no ambiente de trabalho merece denúncia e condenação. Mas e o que dizer da discriminação racional? Considere os seguintes casos. Você é gestor do comitê responsável pela contratação do novo presidente de uma faculdade historicamente composta por estudantes negros. Então, você discrimina em favor de candidatos negros e contra candidatos não negros. Você

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