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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Here we bring you the last week from the Atlas Intellectuals course on Capitalism. We will show you some Capitalism Data and Indices from all over the world. To supplement the theory and history of capitalism, we now provide data on more and less capitalistic economies. Which are most open to entrepreneurship? Most respectful of property
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Comparando el desempeño económico de América del Norte y América Latina Por Stephen R. C. Hicks, Ph.D. ¿Cuál es la razón de las grandes diferencias en el desempeño económico entre las dos Américas? Traducido al Español por María Marty, 2016. Para este y más artículos en español: https://www.stephenhicks.org/espanol/ Original article in English: https://www.stephenhicks.org/2017/01/04/comparing-north-and-latin-america-economic-performance-the-good-life/
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Stephen R. C. Hicks Traducido al español por Fermín Elizalde. Artículo original en inglés y Kindle. Introducción: los negocios y la sociedad libre Los defensores de la sociedad libre piensan en los negocios como una parte integral de la sociedad dinámica y progresista que defienden. En Occidente, el surgimiento de una cultura hospitalaria para los
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[This short lecture in the Entrepreneurship and Values series was recorded at Rockford University and sponsored by the Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship. Other series lecturers include Professors Alexei Marcoux, Stephen Hicks, Terry Noel, John Chisholm, Robert Salvino.] Entrepreneurship and Liberty Professor William Kline (University of Illinois, Springfield) What we want to discuss is the relationship between liberty
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We’re now posting serially at thinkspot the transcripts of my Open College podcasts. Here’s the sixteenth: Socialism is partly an ethos, and partly it’s politics. The ethos is that you belong to a social unit, not an individual self; your allegiance, your values, and in some cases, your identity comes from being a part of
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