My podcast on the Bill Murphy show is now up on these platforms: LinkedIn RedZone Blog Soundcloud iTunes Stitcher (for Droid users) A transcription is also available at the RedZone Blog link. Themes and questions: The humanities-universities’ shift from classical liberal education with focus on individual and his uniqueness to a post-modern outlook with focus on […]
Ontario’s financial debts, as of 2018: “Ontario’s debt has ballooned to $312 billion, the biggest debt held by a subnational government anywhere in the world. Ontario owes twice as much as California, which has a population bigger than all of Canada.”[1] Enron’s debts as determined by its bankruptcy proceedings: “The company paid its creditors more
The Moral of Two Scandals — Enron and Ontario Read More »
[This lecture is Part 1 of the Entrepreneurship and Values series and was recorded at Rockford University and sponsored by the Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship.] Dr. Alexei Marcoux on Defining Entrepreneurship Entrepreneurship as an Essentially Contested Concept” I want to talk today about entrepreneurship and, in particular, its status as an essentially contested concept. By an essentially contested concept,
Alexei Marcoux: What Is Entrepreneurship? [transcript] Read More »
FEE this month reprints Sarah Skwire’s good piece from 2017: “The Moral and Spiritual Blessings of Trade Among All Nations”: “Free trade doesn’t just make us better off. It makes us better people.” At PanAm Post this month, Maria Marty takes up the underlying collectivist premises of many anti-free-trade arguments: “La excusa colectivista para limitar
On the *moral* benefits of international trade: Skwire, Marty, and Hicks pieces Read More »
[This lecture is Part 3 of the Entrepreneurship and Values series and was recorded at Rockford University and sponsored by the Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship.] Terry Noel on Management and Entrepreneurship Hello, my name is Terry Noel. I am an Associate Professor of Management and Quantitative Methods at Illinois State University. Today, we are going to talk
Terry Noel: Management and Entrepreneurship [transcript] Read More »
Interviewer Mark Michael Lewis and I had an extended conversation about philosophy and its applications to education, business ethics, postmodernism, and entrepreneurship. The ten topics: 1. How I first read Rand and Mises [1:44 minutes] 2. Why one should always take arguments at their best [10:15] 3. Why many philosophers are politically left [16:00] 4.
Ten topics in applied Objectivism — interviewed by Mark Michael Lewis Read More »
What happens when you mix politics, bathrooms, and sexuality? Let the joking begin. A politician walks into a transgender bar. [Fill in the blank here.] Afterwards, he tries to explain: “I really only wanted to use the bathroom.” Ha ha. But the serious business is the busybody politicians in North Carolina and Tennessee who have
Whose Bathroom Is It, Anyway? [Good Life series] Read More »
Two of my articles on entrepreneurship-related themes are published in Portuguese translation at the Junior Achievement Brasil site: “Educando para o empreendedorismo” and “O que a ética empresarial pode aprender com o empreendedorismo?”
Two entrepreneurship articles at JA Brazil Read More »