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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Analogies clarify by making comparisons. To work well, they transfer the same structure to a more familiar domain. Often, to make general and abstract claims more easily grasped, they use particular and concrete examples. So here’s a breakdown of my PPP/WalMart analogy previously posted. What one needs to ask in evaluating this analogy is: Are
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Suppose Congress has passed and the President signed the Retail Redistribution Ruling (RRR). The RRR’s terms are that all WalMart stores are now nationalized, and for one day every WalMart store will be open to the public for citizens to take something they want. You receive in the mail a ticket entitling you to enter
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I’m happy to announce a new audio edition of my “Ayn Rand and Business Ethics” has been published at Audible. Thanks to the team at The Atlas Society for producing it. The essay was originally published in The Journal of Accounting, Ethics & Public Policy and has since been translated into Korean, German, Serbo-Croatian, and
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