From May 23-25, I’ll be participating in a colloquium on “Virtues and Entrepreneurship,” organized by Sweden’s Ratio Institute. My talk will be an extension of the theme of my “What Business Ethics Can Learn from Entrepreneurship,” arguing that the success traits of entrepreneurship map onto an updated Aristotelian virtue set. The conference will include keynote […]
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Robert Salvino (Economics, Coastal Carolina University) spoke at Rockford College on “Entrepreneurship and Public Policy.” In this follow-up interview, Salvino and I discuss entrepreneurial success traits, the institutional framework within which entrepreneurship best flourishes, the relative success of market-friendly versus government-chosen entrepreneurship policies (including examples such as Google, Apple, Solyndra, etc.), the effect of employer-provided
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In my Business and Economic ethics course, we have started discussing Arnold Kling and Nick Schulz’s From Poverty to Prosperity: Intangible Assets, Hidden Liabilities and the Lasting Triumph over Scarcity. The book was re-issued in paperback with the title Invisible Wealth: The Hidden Story of How Markets Work. As I wrote earlier, it’s a very
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On March 28, Terry Noel, Professor of Management and Quantitative Methods at Illinois State University, will visit Rockford College to give two talks: “The Virtuous Entrepreneur” and “Entrepreneurship and Management.” Dr. Noel is the author of Empty Nest Egg and a frequent speaker on entrepreneurial themes. Contact Virginia Murr at CEE@Rockford.edu for more details. Update:
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I was interviewed by David Hutzelman on a variety of topics: entrepreneurial ethics, why business ethics should focus on the positive more than the negative, our cultural progress in developing institutions of trust and becoming comfortable with non-traditional social relationships. Here’s Part I of the interview: Update: The full interview is now available. In the
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I interviewed Arielle John, an economist at Beloit College, Wisconsin, about the influence of culture on entrepreneurship. Professor John focuses her research on Trinidad, and she starts by noting striking differences in entrepreneurship rates among Trinidad’s ethnic groups. Her explanation invokes the distinction between Kirznerian and Schumpeterian entrepreneurship, ethnic social networks, and Trinidad’s post-colonial political
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Springer’s massive 1,581-page Handbook of the Philosophical Foundations of Business Ethics is now online. The multi-volume work covers business ethics from almost every conceivable perspective–Aristotelian, Marxist, Jewish, Christian, Islamic, Kantian, utilitarian, feminist, free market, and more. I contributed the essay entitled “Entrepreneurship and Ethics,” which appears on pages 1239-1246. Cite: Handbook of the Philosophical Foundations
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I will be giving a talk on “Entrepreneurs as Heroes” to the Instituto de Estudo Empresariais (Institute for the Study of Entrepreneurship) in Porto Alegre on January 7. Thanks to Roberto Rachewsky and Ana Elisa of the IEE for making this possible. My theme will be that the entrepreneurial commitment to value creation is of
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