Imagine a college dormitory, students away from home, and available alcohol. In any student population, some will drink too much. But most will do fine. Now suppose a Dean of Students who installs a bar in the dorm and subsidizes the price of booze, especially for favored students. Not surprisingly, the amount of student drunkenness […]
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Suppose that you’re a single mother living in a rough part of the city. The father of your child is not around. You’d like to work, but it’s a challenge to fit that with your commitments as a mother. Yet you have ambition and energy — and an entrepreneurial idea: Other women in your area
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Calls for “Government-Business cooperation” to run the economy should be seen as skeptically as calls for “Government-Sex Clinic cooperation” to run our bedroom lives. Related: “From the Office of the Reproducer-General.“
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Adolf Hitler joined the Nazi party after being inspired by Gottfried Feder’s 1919 speech about the new party’s ideals. An indication of those ideals is in Feder’s 1919 publication, Manifesto for the Abolition of Enslavement to Interest on Money. Here’s an excerpt from (Nazi sympathizer) Hadding Scott’s translation of Feder’s manifesto: “The abolition of enslavement
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First published in English : “Ayn Rand and Contemporary Business Ethics,” Journal of Accounting, Ethics, and Public Policy. Also at Social Science Research Network. Ayn Rand y la ética empresarial contemporánea Por Stephen R. C. Hicks, Ph.D. Introducción: los negocios y la sociedad libre, La literatura contemporánea: los negocios como amorales o inmorales, La ética
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On November 17, K. Mikey M and I will be presenting an open-to-the-public seminar: “Courage, perseverance, and embracing risk are key to innovation and entrepreneurial success. But where do those traits come from? We’re all works in progress, and this session focuses on how we cultivate the entrepreneurial mind-set and action-set in ourselves.” Hosted by the
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From a private correspondence: Quite frankly the “elite schools” are producing a raft of useless employees. These graduates come from an environment where dissent and opposing views are not only crushed, the person who expresses them becomes a pariah. I serve on the board of directors of an executive recruiting firm with a 40-year history.
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Compare these two lists of Top Ten corporations in the United States, 2000 on the left and 2020 on the right: 8 out of 10 companies dropped out of the list, replaced by new companies, most of which had only come into existence in this generation.
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