John Chisholm at TEDx
Important 20-minute talk for aspiring entrepreneurs: “Release your Inner Company.” Also check out my fun and informative Kaizen interview with Chisholm.
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Business Ethics
Talk at Free Minds / Atlas Society seminar
I’ll be giving a talk entitled “Using Great Entrepreneurs to Teach Great Philosophy” at the Free Minds / Atlas Society seminar in Anaheim next week. The complete list of speakers and talk titles is available starting here. While in California, I’ll also be interviewing a stylish entrepreneur for an upcoming issue of Kaizen.
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Entrepreneurship and CSR
I’m giving a talk tomorrow at the 10th International Conference on Corporate Social Responsibility. My title is “Entrepreneurship and CSR,” CSR being the dominant framework for business ethics for the last half century or so. CSR is a very flexible vessel into which theoreticians have poured a variety of ethical views, but the major versions
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FedEx and UPS versus USPS
First, the government monopoly: CNN Money reports that the “U.S. Postal Service reports $2.2 billion loss” in the first quarter of 2011 and expects to lose lots more. Second, two private market companies: Reuters reports that United Parcel Service’s “profit tops estimates” but, sadly, that FedEx’s profits “fell 3 percent to $231 million.” One question
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The “Monsanto is evil” puzzle
Natural News surveyed its readers asking which corporations they believed to be the most evil: Monsanto topped the list, followed by B.P., Halliburton, McDonald’s, Pfizer, Merck, Wal-Mart, and Nestlé. Natural News writer Mike Adams reported on the survey results, chiming in to agree and add his opinion that Monsanto is not only evil but psychotic
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Chipotle Mexican Grill versus egalitarianism
Egalitarianism wins. Chipotle restaurant lost an appeal opportunity when the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear the case. Chipotle had been sued by a wheelchair-bound customer who complained that while other customers could see their food being prepared a four-foot high counter blocked his view from his wheelchair perspective. The plaintiff argued that his rights
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Argentina, Hong Kong, and the psychology of belief
Over the last 80 years, the world rankings of Hong Kong and Argentina: Resource-poor Hong Kong’s relatively laissez-faire free market has taken it from poverty to riches. Resource-rich Argentina’s experiments in statism have taken it from prosperity to decline and semi-functionality. In this Wall Street Journal/Heritage ranking, Hong Kong is currently first in the world
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Defending Shylock — Kindle version
My essay, Defending Shylock: Productive Work in Financial Markets, is now available in Kindle format. In this essay, I discuss the great value that financial markets add to an economy and the nature of the intellectual work that underlays them. In addition, I argue against the critics of financial markets who argue that those who
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