Last year BusinessWeek magazine ranked Loyola University Chicago’s Business Ethics program Number One in the Country. So it is an honor to be part of the team as an adjunct professor this summer teaching the MBA course in Business Ethics (and to be able to enjoy LUC’s dynamic Water Tower location in beautiful downtown Chicago). […]
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An important editorial in The Washington Times about Elena Kagan, currently Solicitor General and nominee to the Supreme Court. (Thanks to Bob M. for the link.) The article contains a classic false alternative: “Ms. Kagan’s First Amendment work repeatedly promotes the idea that speech rights are granted by government rather than inherent in the God-given
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My essay, “Defending Shylock: Productive Work in Financial Markets,” is now available in pamphlet form at Amazon. The essay is also available for free at the Social Science Research Network. 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.
On March 30, Jeffrey Orduno spoke at Rockford College on Property Rights and the Law. Mr. Orduno is a Rockford College alum, received his J.D. from John Marshall Law School, and is currently an associate in the law firm at McGreevy Williams, where his practice includes business litigation and transactions, as well as matters related
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Dr. William Kline, Assistant Professor of Liberal Studies at the University of Illinois, Springfield, gave two talks this month at Rockford College. Here is my follow-up interview with him on the main points of his talk on business ethics (3 clips): The talk was sponsored by the Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship, and the above
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[This is Section 40 of Nietzsche and the Nazis.] Part 8. Conclusion: Nazi and Anti-Nazi Philosophies 40. Hindsight and future resolve We know from historical hindsight that it took a world war to defeat the Nazis. Tens of millions of human beings died in that war. Actual human beings who lived, loved, cried, had dreams—and
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I’ll be giving a talk on Friday, March 12 to the Houston Property Rights Association on the topic of “Entrepreneurship, Politics, and Ayn Rand”: “Why are business success and free markets so unpopular in some quarters? There are lots of reasons. One is that business is seen as immoral or boring or both. For the
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At this year’s APEE conference, I am chairing a session on “Ethics and the Financial Crisis.” The rationale for the session: Many conferences and debates are focusing on the economics and politics of the crisis, but much less attention is being focused on the core ethics issues involved. Here are the participants and the titles
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