My colleague Shawn Klein is editing a new volume on Steve Jobs and Philosophy, to be published as part of Open Court’s Popular Culture and Philosophy series. For those interested in writing an original contribution to the volume, please see Dr. Klein’s Call for Abstracts with more information about the scope of the volume and […]
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At The Money Illusion blog: “Regarding the minimum wage, here is some data for Western Europe: “There are nine countries with a minimum wage (Belgium, Netherlands, Britain, Ireland, France, Spain, Portugal, Greece, Luxembourg). Their unemployment rates range from 5.9% in Luxembourg to 27.6% in Greece. The median country is France with 11.1% unemployment. “There are
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My review of Kevin Gibson’s Ethics and Business: An Introduction (Cambridge University Press, 2007) was published in the journal Teaching Philosophy (Spring 2010). Here’s a 13-minute audio version of the review in MP3 or at YouTube. Topics covered in the review: * Criteria for evaluating textbooks in business ethics. * The Concession versus Contractual theories
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Stephen Hicks interview with Silicon Valley entrepreneur John Chisholm at Rockford University.
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Professor Capaldi lectured recently at Rockford University on the topic of “The Lockean Liberty Narrative versus the Rousseau Equality Narrative, and How These Narratives Explain Everything.” Afterward we discussed his themes — the conflict between the Lockean and Rousseauian narratives, enterprise and civil societies, the nature of the corporation, corporate philanthropy, cronyism, and more. Professor
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A good journalistic piece in The New York Times: “The Perverse Effects of Rent Regulation.” (Thanks to R.M. for the link.) Rent control is a classic case of bad economics and bad ethics. The bad economics is ignorance of unintended consequences — in this case a price control that makes the initial problem worse. The
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According to numbers released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics late in 2012, workplace injuries continue to decline: * The injury rate for workers in the private sector has fallen to “3.5 cases per 100 equivalent full-time workers.”[1] That is a 31% drop over the last decade. * The injury rate for public sector workers
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The 1984 disaster in Bhopal, India, is one of the major business ethics cases of the past generation. A hazardous chemical was spilled and, tragically, many people died. Awful. But I am weary of reading the standard journalistic accounts that run like this: In the name of profit, a large American multinational corporation neglected safety;
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