Economics professor Nimish Adhia will give a talk at Rockford College on Friday, September 24. His theme will be India’s setting itself on the road to prosperity and how Bollywood films both signaled and contributed to the cultural shift necessary for economic liberalization to occur. For much of the twentieth century, poverty and stagnation characterized […]
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My review of Kevin Gibson’s Ethics and Business: An Introduction (Cambridge University Press, 2007) is now out in the current issue of Teaching Philosophy. The review is behind the subscriber wall but will be publicly available eventually. From my introductory section: “Gibson’s approach is middle-of-the-road in the content of his beliefs about business and ethics,
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Here is a nice solution to a problem. City governments are usually responsible for street signs. But they can be expensive–and this is an era of supposed budget cuts, it’s hard to impose new taxes, and so on. So why not get area businesses to sponsor the signs? Businesses will pay happily to get some
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Greater Buenos Aires has a population of around 13 million. How do they all get to work, school, and visiting grandmother in the old neighborhood? Many drive, but here’s an an interesting tidbit about its unique mix of private and public transportation: “There are over 150 city bus lines called Colectivos, each one managed by
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Stephen Hicks discusses the type of literature used in postmodern education. This is from Part 14 of his Philosophy of Education course. 1 Clip: Previous: Postmodern education: Teacher training. Next: Postmodern education: History. Return to the Philosophy of Education page or the full lecture series on Philosophy of Education at YouTube via these playlists. Return
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I will be giving a keynote lecture in Argentina at the invitation of the Bases Foundation and the School of Economics of the Catholic University in Rosario. The event is the Third International Conference on “The Austrian School of Economics in the 21st Century,” which will be held August 5-7, 2010. The title of my
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Postmodernism draws many themes from Marxism. Here Stephen Hicks discusses several problems from Marxist theory and history that postmodernism reacts to. From Part 14 of his Philosophy of Education course. Clips 1-3: Previous: Quotations from Foucault, Lyotard, Derrida. Next: Pomo: skeptical relativistic rhetoric against modern society. Return to the Philosophy of Education page or the
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Stephen Hicks discusses socialism’s view of capitalism as the “rich get richer.” This is from Part 13 of his Philosophy of Education course. 1 Clip: Previous: The socialism in “scientific socialism”–Necessary economic developmental stages.Next: Revolution, not evolution.Return to the Philosophy of Education page or the full lecture series on Philosophy of Education at YouTube via
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